1
as in to deny
to declare not to be true
disallowing the philosophical concept of free will
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2
as in to refuse
to be unwilling to grant
disallowed the defendant's request for a new trial
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Recent Examples of disallow
At the hearing, Belichick’s representatives floated the notion that the NFL was violating antitrust law by disallowing the coach from pursuing employment with other teams, and threatened litigation if the commissioner’s ban was not lifted.
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2024
Even though decades of regulations and bipartisan Education Department guidance reflected that these plans would result in loan forgiveness after 20 or 25 years, there is a distinct possibility that the appeals court could disallow loan forgiveness under these plans.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Pierce’s piece demonstrates how site owners are caught between a rock and a hard place: Even if AI startups are crawling the internet solely to enrich their own products, disallowing the bots may doom a site to obscurity.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2024
Consider disallowing phones at the dinner table, both in the house and out in public.
—Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2024
Even though decades of regulations and bipartisan Education Department guidance reflected that these plans would result in loan forgiveness after 20 or 25 years, there is a distinct possibility that the appeals court could disallow loan forgiveness under these plans.
—Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Pierce’s piece demonstrates how site owners are caught between a rock and a hard place: Even if AI startups are crawling the internet solely to enrich their own products, disallowing the bots may doom a site to obscurity.
—Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Dec. 2024
Consider disallowing phones at the dinner table, both in the house and out in public.
—Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Is there some way that the Giants and Jets can get clipped for congestion pricing over on Route 3? People who still deny that climate change is real also believe that pigs can fly.Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 11 Jan. 2025
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While McMahon has denied the claims, the case remains active.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Colonists refused to buy British products leading up to the Revolution, and when the British tried to bring in tea against their wishes ...Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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Trump initially refused to approve federal aid to California for wildfires in 2018 until a National Security Council staffer showed him that Orange County had a dense concentration of voters who supported him, according to Politico.Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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While the Obama administration rejected Cheney’s outsized role for itself, Joe Biden still became a close adviser and helped achieve administration goals.Roy Brownell, Baltimore Sun, 18 Jan. 2025
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Greens, blues, and reds remain masculine while rejecting the conventions of more conservative styles.Ian Malone, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2025
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John Irving, an attorney for de Oliveira, declined to comment on Cannon's ruling.Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2025
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However, the state’s herd sizes had been declining for years; the dairy biodigester boom may have just helped stave off further decline.Kenny Torrella, Vox, 13 Jan. 2025
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Lori Robertson, director of the nonpartisan website FactCheck.org, which also partnered with Meta, also refuted Zuckerberg's notion that fact-checking contributed to a suppression of opinion.Kate Gibson, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2025
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In 2011, his former Minister of Justice directly refuted the previous statements, claiming that Gaddafi directly ordered the bombing.Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 6 Jan. 2025
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“Disallow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disallow. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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