postpone
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Postpone or hold back: The Fed might decide to wait and hold back on rate cuts in October, giving forward guidance but not putting through additional cuts until data releases pick up again.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 11, 2025
“If you can tell your work, please do so. Postpone discretionary trips into the downtown area.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2023
Postpone the Champagne until you feel true trust and intimacy.
From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2018
Postpone whatever you’re working on with her, if you can, until she’s able to speak at a reasonable volume.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2018
Postpone you can not, nor advance Success or failure that's to be; All fortune, being born of chance, Is bastard-child to destiny.
From Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses by Cawein, Madison Julius
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