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postponed

adjective as in deferred

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The American Athletic Conference released an updated schedule Friday to account for recently postponed games.

Whether it’s the notion of postponing a show or whether it’s this idea of selling collections, you want to make sure that anything you do, you use people who you trust.

From Vox

To this point, 78 college football games have been either canceled or postponed because of the virus.

The new guidance says that “postponing travel and staying home is the best way to protect yourself and others this year” and offers questions Americans should ask themselves before making a trip.

The NHL already postponed the 2021 Winter Classic in Minneapolis and the 2021 All-Star Game in South Florida.

Yes, he may have been ill, but if he was politically healthy, the meeting would have been postponed until he was able to appear.

Each has merely postponed the problem—and neither political party has shown much understanding of how to start solving it.

More than once the Iraqis we worked with postponed our engagements so they could mourn slain colleagues.

The court postponed execution of the sentence, to give her time to recover from childbirth and to wean the new baby.

Planned Naval cooperation talks are now indefinitely postponed.

Three times the squadron of frigates got ready to accompany the new minister, but each time the minister postponed his departure.

He needs her to witness for his clients, and Momsy says the hearing before the Surrogate cannot be postponed again.

The final vote was therefore again postponed until the following day.

If you happen to call too close to a meal-time in one of these towns, the meal will be postponed until you leave.

But further operations against Scotland were postponed till Hereford and the other prisoners of note could be ransomed home.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to postponed, such as: delayed, suspended, adjourned, intermitted, prorogued, and scrubbed.

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

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