allowance
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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
Antonelli's grid penalty was inevitable at some point after reliability problems earlier in the year meant they would need to exceed his allowance of four engines for the season.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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
At that time, presidents were given a small allowance to run the White House.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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In the current epidemic, driven by the rare Bundibugyo strain, for which there is no approved vaccine, those workers haven’t been paid their Ebola-response allowances for weeks, according to the WHO and local aid officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
It is fed by California’s cap-and-invest program, which allows large polluters to buy and sell allowances for their greenhouse gas emissions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Under changes to Belgian law in 2013, only a few members of the royal family are entitled to public allowances - King Philippe, his father King Albert II, Prince Laurent and Princess Astrid.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
He made allowances for that, and couched his questions cleverly Innocuously.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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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
"Months and months out of sight of land, and provisions running short, and allowanced as to water, and your mind communing with the mighty ocean, and all that sort of thing?"
From The Wind in the Willows by Paul Bransom
Then don't you ever go and say you were allowanced, mind that.'
From The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
I'm allowanced off an' I've got t' eat on'y what he gives me—that's in our contrac'.
From The Missing Link by Edward Dyson
We found sugar scarce; butter scarce, and bread sharply allowanced in hotels and restaurants.
From The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White
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
Vocabulary lists containing allowance
Christopher Columbus' Diary: The First Voyage
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