dispensation

Example Sentences

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Given the relatively sparse facilities in their home country, and the possibility of generating greater income elsewhere, Fiji have been given dispensation to play their home matches on neutral territory.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026

Indeed, it is not a novel at all, and it has been categorized as such only because of a curious dispensation afforded to the French to affix that label to any book they want.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

To actually get a new organ, patients like Newman are functionally required to secure a special dispensation from the state, which must be renewed every year.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

In 1933, Jewish lawyers were banned from appearing in German courts, but Frankel had served in World War I, and as a consequence of doing that, had a dispensation from the ban.

From Slate • May 27, 2025

Papa had said we must wait until I was seventeen, but he consented to giving me those three days of dispensation.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez