postpone
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Initially, polls were set to go ahead in just 106 areas, as ministers had granted 30 authorities permission to postpone their elections until May 2027.
From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026
The net effect is that 21% of the respondents in the sample decided to postpone their retirements.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
Earlier this week, stocks advanced and investors cheered a social-media post from the president saying that the U.S. military would postpone strikes on Iranian power plants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
"President Xi understood that it's very important for the president to be here throughout these combat operations right now. He understood obviously the request to postpone and accepted it."
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
We will be lucky if we can postpone the search for new technologies for a while, until we have discovered some satisfactory things to do with the extra time.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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