as in allowing
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1
as in permitting
to give permission to
my parents would not let me drive until I had a job and could pay for my own gas
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2
as in renting
chiefly British
to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment
the pensioner has begun letting rooms in her home to earn some extra money
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as in enabling
to make able or possible
the low gravity on the moon lets you make enormous leaps and jumps
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as in tolerating
to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference
they let their kids get away with murder
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Recent Examples of letting
Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2026
How about letting the Bears do a joint project with the people of Illinois and let the stadium be owned by the people?
—Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
Or drafting multiple swings and letting development do the work.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
Show me how to maintain my voice and standards while letting AI handle the heavy lifting.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The latter is mostly what the Biden administration did, letting in violent criminals who committed new crimes, including the murder of American citizens.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2026
Minimal in both its copy and marketing, OAMC and Salomon appear confident in letting the product do the heavy lifting for this collaboration.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 13 Jan. 2026
Before that run, Maye had gone 1-of-3 with a scramble and two sacks versus man-to-man, which risks letting mobile quarterbacks loose in open space.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
His kid isn’t letting such assumptions take root.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
Social media is one of the key drivers and reinforcers of anti-Semitic extremism; tweets like Abd el-Fattah’s are not just harmless letting-off of steam.
—Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
Verb
As much as Doppelgänger is a testament to slowing down and letting good things take time, there’s a stark humanity in its awkward in-between stages.
—Grace Robins-Somerville, Pitchfork, 23 Jan. 2026
How about letting the Bears do a joint project with the people of Illinois and let the stadium be owned by the people?
—Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
Or drafting multiple swings and letting development do the work.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
Show me how to maintain my voice and standards while letting AI handle the heavy lifting.
—Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 Jan. 2026
The latter is mostly what the Biden administration did, letting in violent criminals who committed new crimes, including the murder of American citizens.
—Arkansas Online, 13 Jan. 2026
Minimal in both its copy and marketing, OAMC and Salomon appear confident in letting the product do the heavy lifting for this collaboration.
—Riley Jones, Footwear News, 13 Jan. 2026
Before that run, Maye had gone 1-of-3 with a scramble and two sacks versus man-to-man, which risks letting mobile quarterbacks loose in open space.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 13 Jan. 2026
His kid isn’t letting such assumptions take root.
—Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for letting
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But an appellate court panel put that decision on hold for the time being, allowing the facility to stay open.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
29 Jan. 2026
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The works will be rotated throughout the galleries, allowing visitors to view them through a different lens.—
Alyson Rodriguez,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Jan. 2026
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In addition to her nursing jobs and financial wellness brand, McElroy earns extra income from leasing out her Honda minivan on Turo for about $50 a day and renting a room in her home out to staff nurses for about $1,000 to $1,200 per month.—
Natalie Wu
Valentina Duarte,
CNBC,
29 Jan. 2026
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Jones is happy to still be renting in Bristol.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
27 Jan. 2026
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The system comes preloaded with a vision–language–action (VLA) large model and more than 10,000 real-world data samples, enabling it to perform complex tasks without extensive setup or calibration.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Jan. 2026
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Each one grew up in a home that required her to curry favor with volatile and inconstant parents—a menacing father figure, a recessive and enabling mother—and each found a fragile safety in her caretakers’ occasional good will.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
12 Jan. 2026
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The United States is apparently tolerating having Rodríguez in charge, for now.—
Mary Triny Mena,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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Steering a flailing economy, presiding over Central America's highest homicide rate, and tolerating corruption in her own ranks Her party’s candidate, once the front-runner, trails in a distant third at 19 percent.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Dec. 2025
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San Diego’s key economic drivers, life sciences, defense and technology, depend on faster permitting, additional lab-ready space, expanded workforce housing and transit improvements.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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Steinberg kept pushing, but the city ran into other delays with connecting the homes to water, sewer and electricity, finding places to put them and the need to meet permitting and other requirements.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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But his letter went on to describe only plans to increase prison capacity, including through purchasing or leasing new or dormant facilities.—
Seth Klamann,
Denver Post,
22 Jan. 2026
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The new property owner, Baumer LTD, has been leasing the building since 2023 from Industrial Builders & Realty LLC, according to a statement.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
22 Jan. 2026
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And ignoring that fact is now no longer a laughing matter.—
Joshua Kloke,
New York Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Parents react in different ways, from telling their potty-mouthed offspring to stop, to explaining why this is a bad habit, to ignoring the behavior, or even enforcing consequences as a punishment.—
Melissa Willets,
Parents,
26 Jan. 2026
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The last large-scale granting of legal status took place almost 21 years ago, under the government of José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, which processed more than 576,000 applications.—
Pau Mosquera,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Figure’s business centers around putting mortgages on the blockchain, which the company says speeds up the granting and funding of home loans.—
Jason Del Rey,
Fortune,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Letting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letting. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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