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- noun Common misspelling of
permissible .
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Examples
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For friends and loved ones, lines in the film such as, "I don't know how to do this help someone with cancer" and "I'm sorry I keep saying the wrong thing" defuse the tension, and make it permissable to feel uncomfortable and blunder one of the statements in Help Me Live is, "It's okay to say or do the 'wrong' thing" - just don't disappear!
Red Room: Lori Hope: Cancer Loves Seth Rogen and Me Red Room 2011
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For friends and loved ones, lines in the film such as, "I don't know how to do this help someone with cancer" and "I'm sorry I keep saying the wrong thing" defuse the tension, and make it permissable to feel uncomfortable and blunder one of the statements in Help Me Live is, "It's okay to say or do the 'wrong' thing" - just don't disappear!
Red Room: Lori Hope: Cancer Loves Seth Rogen and Me Red Room 2011
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I suspect such practices would still be permissable.
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It is known that in the Moslem Faith it is permissable to lie in the defence of Islam.
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Only if it is truly "taken out of context", i.e. the meaning is changed without a broader context, is it logically not permissable.
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As a result, the once limited power of regulating interstate commerce gradually became a much bigger field of permissable federal power.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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I am still trying to find out if buying on the internet and shipping items here to Mexico is permissable.
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I am still trying to find out if buying on the internet and shipping items here to Mexico is permissable.
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I am still trying to find out if buying on the internet and shipping items here to Mexico is permissable.
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I don't really care about the original author's purpose, because if one can use his own words to skewer his position, or that of adherents to the broader topic, that is logically permissable.
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