deferred

Example Sentences

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Deferred compensation plans can help, if workers have access to them, he said.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

His new attorney, Patricia Corrales, said Adan Rico’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status doesn’t come up for renewal until 2027 and it defers deportation proceedings.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

She grew up undocumented, and when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program became available, applied to gain work authorization.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Itzel — a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy whose family lives in Long Beach — has seen the same patterns among her co-workers in the landscaping industry.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2025

Two years is not a long period of time in which to foster a great enterprise like the C.& W.A.L.R.R., and it is for this purpose that I issue the Deferred Debentures.

From Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Smith, Francis Hopkinson