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disallow

[dis-uh-lou] / ˌdɪs əˈlaʊ /


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Some, including Robinhood and SoFi, say they will disallow or limit allocations for people who have participated in IPOs in the past and have “flipped” shares, selling them within 30 days of the offering.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

Bryan Mbeumo controlled the ball with his hand before Matheus Cunha scored, but the referee rejected a review to disallow it.

From BBC May 29, 2026

They were only rescued by an agonizing video review that took over 4 minutes to disallow the goal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

"I don't see, with the VAR, how you can disallow that goal. That's a shame to be honest. It is what it is and it's nothing we can control."

From BBC Mar. 24, 2026

The motion sought to disallow the testimony of David Strayer, the professor at the University of Utah, who is expert in distracted driving.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

It is not uncommon for inductees to be added to the hall of fame posthumously, but the association’s rule specifically disallows artists to be elected in the year of their death.

From New York Times Mar. 18, 2024

He noted the "collateral estoppel" doctrine in the case that disallows Trump and Habba from attempting to "relitigate the first trial."

From Salon Jan. 18, 2024

Jin, who turned 30 in December, had faced an impending conscription because the law disallows most South Korean men from further delaying their services after they turn 30.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2023

The objection of Speusippus,—that irrational creatures are not to be admitted as witnesses,—Aristotle disallows, seeing that rational and irrational agree on the point; and the thing that seems to all, must be true.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

"We got lucky," he said after a quarter-final that saw Norway take the lead, miss a great chance to make it 2-0, have a goal disallowed and also hit the bar.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2026

Former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp was speaking after Germany had a goal disallowed during their World Cup tie with Paraguay.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

How does that feed into Egypt's disallowed goal?

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Haaland’s push on England’s Elliott Anderson led to video replay disallowing a go-ahead strike, which briefly appeared to have given Norway a second-half lead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

Instead of disallowing conversations about “imminent real-world harm” and self-harm, it placed them in a category in which the model was instructed to simply “take extra care” with users.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

Smith partly redeemed himself to the Wembley crowd by disallowing a second Australia try before the break as Dom Young was taken out by Josh Addo-Carr as he jumped to catch a high kick.

From BBC Oct. 25, 2025

But after a replay review, DeJean was ruled to have made a fair-catch signal before fielding the punt, disallowing the return.

From Seattle Times Oct. 21, 2023

Another February 8 motion was aimed at disallowing the prosecution from using anything in the trial that Reggie had said to Rindlisbacher at the scene of the accident, and en route to the hospital.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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