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am allowing
  • present progressive of allow (1st person singular).

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I am allowing leg hairs to grow in to avoid bumps.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022

But I worry this is unhealthy, that I am allowing myself to fall into patterns that will eventually leave me isolated.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

I am allowing my children to go anywhere they want and study anything they wish.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2016

The modernizing imperative — societies need to embrace more openness to make progress — is why I am allowing myself to be optimistic about the progress of the youth revolutions.

From Time • Feb. 17, 2011

Not by any means that I am allowing in this case the existence of a "macula," or an "incuria" either.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various