allowances
Example Sentences
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We have agitated for paid parental leave, universal childcare, better public schools, child allowances, and other help for struggling parents.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the current epidemic, driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine, those workers haven’t been paid their Ebola-response allowances for weeks, according to the WHO and local aid officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It is fed by California’s cap-and-invest program, which allows large polluters to buy and sell allowances for their greenhouse gas emissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Now everyone's making allowances for that, and it's not a problem," she tells the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Because he had once written a book, a dry treatise on melancholy, he felt the world should ever after make special allowances for him.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
