make allowances for
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When you make allowances for paying less payroll and income tax, finally get rid of your mortgage and reduce your day-to-day traveling expenses, you will hopefully cut at least 20% each month.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 12, 2026
“You make allowances for the energy of the Israelis and this environment — that is right.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2023
Virginia McVea said the normal postal and proxy vote legislation remained the same for Northern Ireland and did not make allowances for Covid-19.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022
And she echoed other delivery firms’ contention that the company fails to make allowances for rural areas with extreme weather.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
One must make allowances for the years, and the speed with which babes-in-arms become boisterous ten-year-olds.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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