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calling off

verb as in discontinue

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Adeleye dropped Tshikeva - known as TKV - twice in the sixth round, with the second resulting in referee Ron Kearney calling off the fight.

From BBC

The couple, whose relationship had been on-and-off since they started dating in 2020, got back together after calling off the engagement but split up again in December.

Her imminent death has brought Van back to her old ways: She talked Taissa into calling off the emergency response team Misty requested for Lottie at the end of Season 2, reflecting Van’s loyalty to Lottie in the past and rekindling that affiliation in the present.

From Salon

Flogging Molly, the Celtic punk band that formed in L.A. in the ’90s, is calling off its 2025 shows so frontman Dave King and his bandmate wife, Bridget Regan, can deal with what the group described as a “very serious health condition.”

Trump briefly raised the idea of buying Greenland in his first term and expressed shock—even calling off a planned visit to Copenhagen—when his offer was refused.

From Slate

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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