disallowed

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Notably, under Hawaii’s law, the people who form corporations are still allowed to engage in political spending; it’s just that the artificial person in question is disallowed.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

Three points came from two VAR interventions which gave the Bees a 4-3 win over Burnley, plus Villa's disallowed goal in a match Brentford won 1-0.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Chelsea came out on top on goals disallowed for the opposition, with six chalked off.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

And although referees' boss Howard Webb told Forest that while there could be justifiable reasons to deem it was not handball by Mbeumo, 'football's expectation' would have been for the goal to be disallowed.

From BBC • May 20, 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