allowance
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He’s been living off an allowance from his parents, but knows they can’t support him forever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Customers who get PIP and are classed as having limited mobility can lease a car for no cash upfront—they simply forgo about £320 a month of “enhanced mobility” allowance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
“While much remains to be seen, its clearest differentiator is its industry-leading output allowance of 1 million tokens,” Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
Malik said that some support is available for cancer patients and their carers, such as financial support from charities, disability benefits and carer's allowance, but it can take time for families to receive benefits support.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
“So when you get allowance money and birthday money, you have to put it in the Madison Square Garden savings jar.”
From "P.S. Be Eleven" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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Lower prices or more generous usage allowances need to translate into durable business.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
"But what we are actually lacking the most right now is pilots. Of course, I hope the government can provide better additional allowances for these military pilots."
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The legislation was limited because of complaints by mortgage servicers that many mortgage contracts and guidelines do not have allowances for state-declared emergencies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
B&Q said the underpayments were unintentional and the result of calculations involving geographical allowances, while Five Guys blamed "technical differences in how payroll regulations were applied".
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
We saved our weekly allowances in the fall, dropped the money in a little porcelain horse Baba had brought one time from Herat.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me—that's in our contrac'.
From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson
I’m allowanced by the doctor even in the matter o’ tea and coffee,” said the sergeant.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
The poor dog, thus allowanced, must have been sorry that he ever joined us.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
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
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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