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Such behavior is impermissible under the new guidelines.
an impermissible breach of etiquette
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Because Lee resolved the question of what qualifies as impermissible coercion, at least in the classroom context, there’s no reason to bring up this 30-year-old disagreement unless at least some of the justices believe that this question should be reopened.
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 June 2024
The league concluded that the Aces violated league rules for impermissible benefits and workplace policies, and subsequently suspended coach Becky Hammon for two games and took away the team’s first-round draft pick.
—Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 22 June 2024
In Xi’s China, the invisible line that separates what is permissible from what is impermissible is moving; with every new arrest, the party-state seems to shift it.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Trump claims that Willis’ affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to an impermissible financial and ethical conflict of interest that should torpedo the entire case.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 25 June 2024
The league concluded that the Aces violated league rules for impermissible benefits and workplace policies, and subsequently suspended coach Becky Hammon for two games and took away the team’s first-round draft pick.
—Raquel Coronell Uribe, NBC News, 22 June 2024
In Xi’s China, the invisible line that separates what is permissible from what is impermissible is moving; with every new arrest, the party-state seems to shift it.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Trump claims that Willis’ affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade amounted to an impermissible financial and ethical conflict of interest that should torpedo the entire case.
—Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 8 May 2024
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impermissible
adjective
im·per·mis·si·ble
ˌim-pər-ˈmi-sə-bəl 
: not permissible
impermissibly
adverb
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