diff --git a/.github/workflows/triage-unallowed-internal-changes.yml b/.github/workflows/triage-unallowed-internal-changes.yml
index 6552389e36..d040ec2928 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/triage-unallowed-internal-changes.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/triage-unallowed-internal-changes.yml
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ jobs:
         run: $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/.github/actions-scripts/enterprise-search-label.js
 
       - name: Fail if unallowed changes were made outside of the Search Sync label added
-        if: ${{ !steps.labelExists.outputs.versionToSync }}
+        if: false == steps.labelExists.outputs.versionToSync && false == contains(github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'deprecate-lunr-index')
         run: |
           echo "Search indices are updated automatically every 4 hours. Please revert any changes you have made to the search indexes before you merge this PR. If you need to update the search indices directly after you merge your PR, you can manually run the search sync workflow: Sync search indexes. See the docs/contributing/search.md for more details. If you have any other questions, please ping us in #docs-engineering."
           exit 1