Allow for and Lack

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Allow for verb - To give consideration to (as unexpected circumstances or contingencies).

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Lack is an antonym for allow for in contain topic.

Lack verb - Be without.

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Allow for is an antonym for lack.

Nearby Words: lacking, lacked

This lack of social imagination leads to them making meticulous plans which sadly don't allow for others' difference of opinions, or random events.

Source: Useful Notes / Asperger Syndrome
Token Mini-Moe: The MMS 3rd Small body type invokes this image, with the 1st and 3nd Tall body types being One Head Taller (MMS 2nd is dedicated to licensed characters, the sole difference from 1st being that they lack a modular chestpiece design that would allow for hotswapping).

Source: Toys / Busou Shinki

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