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afford

verb as in able to have or do; within financial means

verb as in give, produce

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The equal protection women enjoyed, according to the Supreme Court, wasn’t as strong as the protection that the Constitution afforded against racial discrimination.

At some point we can’t afford some of our employees because we don’t have money coming in from our clients.

From Digiday

The most advanced AI techniques require an enormous amount of computational resources, which increasingly only the wealthiest companies can afford.

His family could not afford to send his grandmother to a nursing home with services like physical therapy.

There’s a certain part of the public that can afford it, and those sort of people want to know where the product is coming from.

From Fortune

The irony has thinned with the economy, perhaps: Who can really afford just to pretend to DIY today?

His stepfather had left his mother and they could no longer afford the house in which they lived.

As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.

It represented everything about the kind of comfort and the little luxuries in life that a good glass of Scotch can afford us.

Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.

I doubt if the modern community can afford to continue it; it certainly cannot afford to extend it very widely.

Here and there are left a few plants without having their tops broken off, in order that they may afford seeds for another year.

Our gunners had put more than they could afford into the bombardment and had very little wherewith to pave the way.

Sensations were not so common in San Bernardino that they could afford to slight so notable an occasion as this.

In some cases a small stained glass window is set in the side or front, but only rich men can afford this luxury.

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On this page you'll find 62 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to afford, such as: allow, manage, bear, incur, spare, and stand.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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