allowance
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Sir William Napier continued providing him with an annual allowance, and Byfield traveled to London when his longtime patron died in 1860.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
If competing platforms adopt equivalent commitments, the overnight block widens to 10:00 pm to 7:00 am and the daily allowance drops to 60 minutes per app, capped at two hours across all of them.
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
No Maribel, no William, no allowance, no nothing but school and home until my dad decided otherwise.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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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
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
The bloc said in 2021 that it would cut the number of emissions allowances on the market, sending their price soaring, which in turn helped drive up the price of power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"Things are better after he re-introduced meal allowances," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Making allowances in the name of helping someone stay in school is what professors do all the time.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
Further, I was told that tea, coffee, and sugar are roughly allowanced to each family.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff
Onct a week dey would come and dey allowanced 'em out pervisions.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration
We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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
Vocabulary lists containing allowance
Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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