permitted

Example Sentences

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While they are no longer allowed in lessons, students are still permitted phones during break times - the school having previously retreated from a stricter ban.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Such disputes mostly happen on Polymarket, whose unregulated offshore platform offers war bets that aren’t permitted on Kalshi or other U.S. platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026

Under long‑standing arrangements, Jews may visit the compound -- which they revere as the site of the first and second Jewish temples -- but they are not permitted to pray there.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

Missouri will join the Union as the twenty-fourth state with slavery permitted in 1821.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis