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disallow

[dis-uh-lou] / ˌdɪs əˈlaʊ /


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Some, including Robinhood and SoFi, say they will disallow or limit allocations for people who have participated in IPOs in the past and have “flipped” shares, selling them within 30 days of the offering.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 4, 2026

They were only rescued by an agonizing video review that took over 4 minutes to disallow the goal.

From The Wall Street Journal May 20, 2026

The VAR intervened to disallow it, and the Gunners claimed a crucial 1-0 win.

From BBC May 11, 2026

Senegal head coach Pape Thiaw, still incensed by Ndala's decision a few moments earlier to disallow a Senegal goal from Ismaila Sarr, ushered his team off the field.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

Or after Granny died and wasn’t there anymore to disallow it, why didn’t he take the stuff to his own house?

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

But his claim was rejected by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals under a 1994 precedent that disallows using such lawsuits to collaterally attack criminal convictions.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 1, 2025

He noted the "collateral estoppel" doctrine in the case that disallows Trump and Habba from attempting to "relitigate the first trial."

From Salon Jan. 18, 2024

Jin, who turned 30 in December, had faced an impending conscription because the law disallows most South Korean men from further delaying their services after they turn 30.

From Washington Times Apr. 18, 2023

They say the signature “should only include” name, title, college address and phone number, which faculty see as a ruling that disallows pronouns.

From Seattle Times Mar. 30, 2023

The idea that the need can be suppressed is absolutely fallacious, and the Puritanic tradition which disallows the need has entailed an enormous crop of evils.

From Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education by Dewey, John

Four years ago in Qatar, only one goal was disallowed after 70 minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Over the first 10 rounds of the season, Samuelsson said, officials have reported five situations where a goal was wrongfully disallowed or should not have stood.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

They also claim Argentina's winner should have been disallowed, and a penalty awarded to them instead.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

In an incident-packed game, Egypt goalkeeper Mostafa Shobeir produced a magnificent save to keep out Messi's penalty before the Pharaohs thought they had scored another only for it to be disallowed.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

However, any mathematician of the day would have scoffed at this line of reasoning; Archimedes used the tools of the infinite, which were so expressly disallowed by his mathematical colleagues.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Haaland’s push on England’s Elliott Anderson led to video replay disallowing a go-ahead strike, which briefly appeared to have given Norway a second-half lead.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

I don't bother cheering goals any more as the officials are far more interested in finding ways of disallowing goals than the entertainment of the match-going fan.

From BBC Feb. 15, 2026

Instead of disallowing conversations about “imminent real-world harm” and self-harm, it placed them in a category in which the model was instructed to simply “take extra care” with users.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

“To me, that basically speaks in favor of allowing, rather than disallowing, the questions, answers, expert testimony, et cetera,” he said.

From Seattle Times Feb. 16, 2024

Another February 8 motion was aimed at disallowing the prosecution from using anything in the trial that Reggie had said to Rindlisbacher at the scene of the accident, and en route to the hospital.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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