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Recent Examples of admissible Davis has since disavowed some of his comments, but a judge ruled them admissible in court. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026 The state's high court also upheld the Fifth Judicial District Court’s ruling that surveillance video showing Trevizo inside the hospital and any body camera footage captured by police were also not admissible in court. — Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026 However, the court ultimately found police were within their rights and that the laser was admissible as evidence. — Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026 Why, then, has no court of law in any country, even the tiniest country in the world, accepted as admissible any AI-detector system? — Will Oremus, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for admissible
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Adjective
  • In 2018, North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment lowering the maximum allowable income tax rate from 10% to 7%, with less than 60% of voters supporting the proposal.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The proposal would increase the allowable amount from $50,000 to as much as $250,000 over the next two years, cutting billions of dollars in revenue from local governments' budgets.
    — Marissa J. Lang, NPR, 30 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Hiding economics in fiction was a way to make her academic interests socially acceptable.
    — Jeanna Smialek, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Regardless, that’s not an acceptable answer in the long term.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Adjective
  • That severely restricts the permissible reasons for communities to reject affordable housing proposals; most standard rules are pre-empted, and only matters of substantial public health or safety concerns qualify.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Adding items mid-meeting is permissible in emergencies, plaintiffs say, but not as means to evade public notice requirements.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2026

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“Admissible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/admissible. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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