shelve

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Appeared in the November 21, 2025, print edition as 'Big Banks Shelve $20 Billion Argentina Bailout'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Shelve her latest novel alongside those of Richard Russo, Nora Ephron, Armistead Maupin, Jess Walter and other comic novelists whose works are both timely and ultimately transcendent.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Shelve it … Kat Banyard of UK Feminista wants lads' mags like Zoo and Loaded banned by retailers.

From The Guardian • Jun. 23, 2013

This is in a line north of Bishops Castle and Shelve, and to those who appreciate wild scenery this part of the county may be specially recommended.

From What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Home, Gordon

Shelve, shelv, v.i. to slope, incline.—n. a ledge.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various