permissibly

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County case and others raise questions about “where are the lines that you draw for what courts can permissibly require parents to do with threat of a custody loss.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2022

And: “Congress can permissibly criminalize certain obstructive conduct by the President, such as suborning perjury, intimidating witnesses, or fabricating evidence.”

From Slate • May 29, 2019

“As to the one unnamed legal client, we do not believe that Mr. Cohen should be asked to reveal the name or can permissibly do so,” the letter said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2018

A lawyer for the captain has said that Mr. Sieboldt-Berry told police he permissibly turned off an identification system once last year to avoid pirates.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2018

Much of the novel's interest, quite permissibly, may inhere in persons, episodes, and matter generally without relation to the main thread of the story.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Dowst, Robert Saunders