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[uh-lou-uhns] / əˈlaʊ əns /




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Should competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight lockout would widen to 10 pm to 7 am and the daily allowance would fall to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours in total.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

Older adults with diabetes in Medicare Advantage plans don’t have better health than those with traditional Medicare, even with extra benefits like a grocery allowance or a gym membership.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

"If these things didn't exist, you'd be outside of society. A cup of coffee on my current benefits is more than what I get on my daily allowance."

From BBC Aug. 22, 2026

He saved all his birthday money and every allowance since he was 7 years old, knowing he would one day want to buy a car.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

In fact, in addition to that declaration of confidence, Theo also proposes increasing Vincent's monthly allowance.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Edison is providing a $72 climate credit on summer electricity bills as a part of a California program that requires large facilities that produce greenhouse gas emissions to buy carbon pollution allowances.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 28, 2026

Emissions allowances now account for a quarter to a third of the EU’s wholesale power price.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

"As a rule, insurance firms won't make allowances for 'disinclination to travel'," Boland says.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

And she calculated needing that long to save her weekly allowances.

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

The first album I ever bought with my own money, allowanced saved up for weeks, was “Long Hard Climb.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 1, 2020

But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”

From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"

From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom

Accordingly I allowanced my men two pounds of beads monthly, and they went to distant villages and purchased their own provisions independently of me.

From The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile by Sir Samuel White Baker

The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.

From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

And when the larger wood begins to grow scarce, what course does the peasant adopt?—The allowancing of individuals.

From The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Henry Glasse




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