make allowances
Example Sentences
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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
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
Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Manchester City's chairman, knows he has a leader with an extraordinary capacity for work and sometimes he has to make allowances for some of his insecurities.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023
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
