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suspend

[suh-spend] / səˈspɛnd /




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After thousands of foodborne illnesses this year, the produce giant will suspend some harvesting and processing during peak summer months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“Jaws” is a fantastic film if you can suspend your disbelief about a great white being the menace of the seas.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Two airports in northwestern Florida were scheduled to suspend operations.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

Canada says it will indefinitely suspend plans to expand its medically assisted dying law to people whose sole condition is mental illness, citing a lack of consensus on who would be eligible.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

In fact, all the girls looked kind of on suspend.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

The government will instead introduce a new law in the coming weeks that suspends that expansion indefinitely, Fraser said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

So he suspends her for a match, the last one before Christmas break.

From Salon ● Sep. 10, 2026

Ms. Hochul announced the moratorium Tuesday in an executive order that suspends permitting for data centers while her administration works on a “regulatory framework.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

The ruling also suspends a Pentagon designation of Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI model, as a national security supply chain risk -- a label typically reserved for organizations from unfriendly foreign countries.

From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026

Nothing affords Relief in the Fit, and no other Medicine ever suspends or puts it off.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

One year ago, Detroit Lions safety Brian Branch was suspended for one game after he smacked Kansas City Chiefs receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster in the helmet after a game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

This is the second time that Jackson has been suspended.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Public transport services were suspended and roads in other cities in the province also had been closed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Portuguese computer hacker who released documents which helped trigger the Premier League investigation into Manchester City will remain in witness protection after authorities in the country suspended the decision to end it.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

The suspended party seems farther away than just beyond the canvas stripes.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Taylor Farms, the produce company linked to the summer’s deadly cyclospora outbreak, is suspending sales of iceberg lettuce from central Mexico during the parasite’s peak season, the WSJ’s Jesse Newman reports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The airline said it was another "on-duty flydubai crew travelling on the flight who diverted and landed the aircraft safely" and that it was suspending flights to Israel while an investigation took place.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Former Edison football coach Dave White remembers suspending his team’s best player before a trip to Hawaii for a team rule violation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

In another setback for Iran’s plans to bypass Hormuz, the country’s Mahan Air, which is sanctioned by the U.S., said Wednesday that it was suspending flights to Oman and Turkey, state-affiliated media in Tehran said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

For a second it held, suspending him above an infinite pit.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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