allowance
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Eastman says the "cost of living" and the "disparity" between the local housing allowance and rents, which in Harlow are "really expensive".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
I know she gets a weekly allowance, unlike me.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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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
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
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
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
With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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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
Then don’t you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.”
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
I’m allowanced by the doctor even in the matter o’ tea and coffee,” said the sergeant.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
But the timber will be allowanced, and the land parcelled out, to each household according to its needs, as soon as either becomes scarce, as is already the case in Russia.
From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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
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
The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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