allowance
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Through a “linkage agreement,” California and Quebec let indulgences move across borders, and participate together in WCI’s quarterly allowance auctions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
While he formally becomes a prince, he will not receive a royal allowance.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He saved all his birthday money and every allowance since he was 7 years old, knowing he would one day want to buy a car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
I think I'm going to have to start buying them out of my allowance.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
It is fed by California’s cap-and-invest program, which allows large polluters to buy and sell allowances for their greenhouse gas emissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Emissions allowances now account for a quarter to a third of the EU’s wholesale power price.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Under changes to Belgian law in 2013, only a few members of the royal family are entitled to public allowances - King Philippe, his father King Albert II, Prince Laurent and Princess Astrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
The agency will use its technology to identify conditions from the compassionate allowances list so that it can expedite claims processing.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Dr. Wells’s replies revolve around small-town practicalities, insurance allowances, and the tried-and-true methods employed by Mercy Hospital.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
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
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
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
I also cut about three or four pounds off a flitch of bacon that hung in the chimney corner, nicely marked to prevent any being lost on account of my late allowanced state.
From The Autobiography of Sergeant William Lawrence A Hero of the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaigns by George Nugent-Bankes
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
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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