allowable
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banned, barred, forbidden, impermissible, inadmissible, interdicted, prohibited, proscribed, verboten
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The horse had more than the allowable level of 2.5 ng/ml in his system. — Los Angeles Times, "Racing! Stewards’ rulings are back," 2 Sep. 2019 The percentage of allowable offsets is a controversial number in environmental policy. — Bloomberg, The Mercury News, "How California can help save Brazil’s burning rainforests," 28 Aug. 2019 The Volcker Rule previously forced banks to prove that their short-term trades — those held for less than 60 days — were allowable under the law. — Emily Flitter, New York Times, "Banks Want Efficiency. Critics Warn of Backsliding.," 20 Aug. 2019 An international summit on genome editing in 2015 resulted in a report laying out some of the conditions under which editing the human germ line for clinical purposes might one day be allowable. — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, "Scientists Seek Better Guidelines for Editing Genes in Human Embryos," 15 Aug. 2019 Castro initially tweeted a graphic of the list, which includes San Antonio residents who donated the maximum amount of money allowable to Trump under campaign finance laws, on Monday night. — NBC News, "Joaquin Castro defends tweets naming San Antonio Trump donors," 7 Aug. 2019 At the time, Wang hadn’t heard of keeping a prognosis from a family member, something that could never happen in the United States but is allowable under Chinese law. — Colleen Cronin, PEOPLE.com, "The True Story Behind Hit Indie The Farewell: Director Lulu Wang on Her Personal Film," 2 Aug. 2019 Evers is directing state agencies to start the process of creating a rule that will govern the level of nitrates that will be allowable. — USA TODAY, "Milestone rhino, Bigfoot shooting, jailed for feeding cats: News from around our 50 states," 1 Aug. 2019 His lawyers argued last week that those acts were allowable under the speech and debate clause. — Jeff Mcdonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Hunter appeals failed motion to dismiss charges to 9th Circuit," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'allowable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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