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postpones

verb as in put off till later time

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Example Sentences

To that end, the budget postpones federal phase-out of incandescent electric bulbs.

Another bailout merely postpones the reckoning, and throws good money after bad.

As Obama postpones a decision on Afghanistan, he should remember FDR's lessons: bring the country along.

I'm disposed to think that college only postpones the day of our awakening; we've got to shoot the chutes anyhow.

Accordingly he postpones marriage to a date in the indefinite future or abandons expectation of it altogether.

Sally's truthful nature postpones laughing at the Professor's absurdity; looks at the case on its merits.

She temporizes, postpones, and supplicates to have the period extended up to the close of the Eisteddfod.

At Mk xiii, 33-37, they come upon a section which Matthew postpones and which Luke has previously inserted.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to postpones, such as: defer, suspend, delay, hold up, shelve, and adjourn.

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

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