shelved

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The plan to sell Manuel Ugarte will now have to be shelved after his serious injury on World Cup duty with Uruguay.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2026

When Curic later took responsibility for Stellantis’s automated-driving program in early 2025, he shelved the company’s internal development, which followed the traditional rules-based approach, and started scouting for AI-savvy partners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2026

It is a significant step forward for a project that was shelved by the UK government when Labour came into power, and then reinstated a year later.

From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026

The church kept one half of its inheritance and shelved the other half.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

He shelved his newly completed fourth symphony, sensing that its dark modernity might make matters worse, and for a while retreated to the relative safety of film scoring.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall