Example Sentences

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Instead of disallowing conversations about “imminent real-world harm” and self-harm, it placed them in a category in which the model was instructed to simply “take extra care” with users.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Smith partly redeemed himself to the Wembley crowd by disallowing a second Australia try before the break as Dom Young was taken out by Josh Addo-Carr as he jumped to catch a high kick.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Two of the parents blamed their daughters' absences on school policies disallowing access to toilets during lessons, preventing them from changing sanitary products.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2024

What reason did the Court give for disallowing race to be among many explicit factors considered?

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2023

Another February 8 motion was aimed at disallowing the prosecution from using anything in the trial that Reggie had said to Rindlisbacher at the scene of the accident, and en route to the hospital.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel