make allowances
Example Sentences
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Be aware that standard estate laws do not automatically consider rent as a mortgage contribution for a house they will eventually own, unless you explicitly structure your estate plan to make allowances for this.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 10, 2025
"We've got to make allowances for people who are trying to do the right thing and were fractionally over the limit," added Ch Insp Morgan.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2024
People make sense even when they aren’t sensible; but science, when it doesn’t, requires you to make allowances.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
It would seem that his stern morality does not preclude him from being practical enough to make allowances when political power is at stake.
From Salon • Oct. 30, 2023
On top of that you must make allowances for distortions caused by variations in the Earth’s atmosphere, by intergalactic dust, contaminating light from foreground stars, and many other factors.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
