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US country music star Ella Langley has said she had to cancel her sold-out concert in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday night, due to a "serious security threat".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI and a rival of Musk’s, said last year that he had tried to cancel his reservation after putting down a $50,000 deposit in 2018.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Or, be sure you have a friend on deck who is willing to attend should the other person cancel.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 3, 2026
Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The way he said it suggested that to cancel now would be a prudent thing to do.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Oracle co-founder and Chief Technology Officer Larry Ellison cancels a plan to sell 50 million shares of company stock.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
He annually cancels or cuts short mandatory minicamps at the end of offseason workouts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Plus: Know your rights as a passenger — and what you’re entitled to if an airline cancels your flight for any reason.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Evans also told the court that an article with the headline "Sick Elton cancels more tour dates" in November 2009 followed a statement on his website.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
It’s like every movement she makes with her paddle cancels mine.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
At the Yeezy beauty salon in downtown Kyiv, no clients have canceled their appointments today, despite five air-raid alerts so far.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
OpenAI canceled the release of a new model, Astra 6.1, because it deemed the model unreliable and found that it frequently ignored instructions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
The series, which was canceled after its first season, is based on an alternate-universe Spider-Man known as Spider-Man Noir.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Galán declined to be interviewed for Carr’s documentary, having been thoroughly raked over the coals once the public’s visceral disgust with “The Swan” got it canceled after its second season.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Then one morning I walked to school and it was canceled.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
Popular use cases of Meta’s viral AI agent include processing refunds, canceling subscriptions and negotiating lower home- and car-insurance rates.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
“It was a colossal headache. I hope I don’t have to go through it again,” said Silva, who at one point considered canceling the whole project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Footfall also takes a hit, he said, noting that a stormy season has once again descended and fearful customers are canceling their reservations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
I was canceling all my shows, and she said, “You can’t do that because you won’t ever get over this if you do.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The first thing I clearly overheard was something about canceling the trip to Paris.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
Authorities have closed dozens of metro stations, cancelled several trains coming to Delhi and shut down mobile internet temporarily around the protest site.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Earlier this year publisher Hachette cancelled the release of horror novel "Shy Girl" by Mia Ballard in the United States and withdrew the book from sale in Britain over allegations of AI use.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Numerous flights at Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport were delayed or cancelled, while the airport advised travellers of the "necessity" to contact airlines before their trips.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
When the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled in 2023, Bottas decided to use the time to compete in a gravel race in Scotland.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
The same newspaper cancelled a prewritten story labeling the rappings an obvious hoax.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Saudi Arabia issued attack alerts Tuesday for Mecca -- the holy city's first of the Middle East war -- and Jeddah and Taif governorates, before quickly cancelling them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The hotel stays, booked separately, have their own terms and conditions and cancelling so late meant there were no refunds.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
Last September, Amazon paid $2.5 billion to settle allegations that it deceptively tricked consumers into Amazon Prime subscriptions and made cancelling them excessively difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Kristersson was due to hold a speech in Stockholm in the evening but told media he was cancelling it to focus on the incident.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
Instead of a roiled mess of waves cancelling each other out, you would have a pond of perfectly ordered waves, with high points and low points appearing regularly at the same spots again and again.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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