as in allows (of)
to make possible especially to the exclusion of other possibilities
the photo is too grainy to permit of anything more than a slight enlargement
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needs
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Breslow suggested that the same aggressiveness needs to be present this winter to keep pace with the rest of the league.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025 -
Yet OpenAI still needs to solve critical problems that could delay the device’s launch, the FT reported.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Permits (of).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/permits%20%28of%29. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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