defer
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Yee expects the budget to confirm, rather than defer, planned energy-transition spendings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The 2026 limit on what you can defer from your paycheck is $24,500, or $32,500 if you’re 50 or older.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
He also urges the justices to defer heavily to military leaders’ judgments about readiness and deployability.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Handler appeared to defer to the soloists, while the trio looked to encourage her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
They try to make this monthly visit informal—everyone wearing civilian clothes, though they all defer to the Gestapo captain as if he were the King of England.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
"Rather, his continued status is merely a temporary arrangement, with the Credentials Committee's decision deferred annually."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
You have roughly $700,000 — about 46% of your financial assets — in CDs, savings, Series I bonds, cash and your deferred annuity.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
It expects other projects “will need to be deferred due to PLS funding challenges, which will no doubt include a significant capital raise.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
However, the closure has been deferred until the remaining residents have been relocated and arrangements for independent living have been completed.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
It struck me as a singular implication that you couldn’t be out of a counting-house, you know, and look about you; but I silently deferred to his experience.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Yes, some of the gains are due to inflation, but the owner also benefits from deferring the tax until the asset is sold.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 31, 2026
The payments are the result of the Mets in 2000 deferring the last $5.9 million of his four-year contract after releasing him on the heels of a .160 batting average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
But a spoof is under no obligation to turn that one joke into a full narrative as it does by deferring to a younger cast, and only checking in with the franchise’s original players occasionally.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Cheniere Energy, another gas exporter, has said it is considering deferring maintenance at some of its units to produce more supplies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Wishes he could simply get into another cab, and ride along another highway, deferring the moment he must face them.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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