cancel
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What I’m saying is, do not whine to Kathy Griffin about cancel culture.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Will Ed Sheeran cancel his tour as support acts quit?
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
“The decision to cancel was made around noon today,” Smith said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
“We’ve not had to cancel a game in two years,” said John Amis, chair at the Bass Rock Cricket Club, which plays across from Elie on the southern side of the Firth of Forth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
My success as an unofficial agent for the SOE will cancel out my flight to France as an unofficial pilot for the RAF.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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LIV cancels final event to focus on 'next chapter'
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The Pentagon cancels a brigade deployment to NATO’s eastern front.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
After the video’s release, ABC cancels Paul’s season of “The Bachelorette.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
Company A owns company B, and company B owns company A. What cancels out what?
From Barron's ● Dec. 11, 2025
Trust is what Rania has in our mission when she cancels her dinner plans with her family once again to stay late to work.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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And Univision Fresno provoked the Valley’s Latino community last year when it canceled a Spanish-language morning show featuring beloved anchor Lupita Lomeli.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
In other words, investors have statements about safety — but no canceled equipment orders, abandoned data centers or revised spending forecasts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
An hour after that, snow falling heavily, an announcement comes that the meat shipment has been canceled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Ocean Way, the groundbreaking beachfront Santa Monica music fest, has been canceled just two weeks before debuting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mr. Kugler wasn’t in the mood and said he would send Miep, but Miep canceled the appointment.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Insurers like Humana are canceling some Medicare Advantage plans.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Depending on your situation, this could mean canceling high-priced memberships or unnecessary subscriptions — or making bigger moves, like selling a second car or downsizing your home.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
The school ended up canceling its season after too many players were declared ineligible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Hurricane Lala disrupted travel between Los Angeles and Hawaii on Saturday, canceling flights from LAX to destinations across the islands as the Category 1 storm approached the Big Island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“He has not learned to be a responsible member of society. For this reason, I am canceling Wendell’s acceptance to attend your college in the fall semester.”
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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From Sunday, passengers whose train had been cancelled can use another operator's service two hours either side of their train to get to their destination at no extra cost, it added.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
In 2025, following multiple complaints that condo buildings’ master policies were either being cancelled or not renewed, Missouri’s Department of Commerce and Insurance told insurers to avoid doing so.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
The failure led to more than 2,000 flights being cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers affected, with some sleeping on airport floors or getting stuck overseas.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Some are still waiting for a visa, but Momand said that 15% have had their visas cancelled or have not yet applied for one.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
The same newspaper cancelled a prewritten story labeling the rappings an obvious hoax.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Saudi Arabia issued attack alerts Tuesday for Mecca -- the holy city's first of the Middle East war -- and Jeddah and Taif governorates, before quickly cancelling them.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Last September, Amazon paid $2.5 billion to settle allegations that it deceptively tricked consumers into Amazon Prime subscriptions and made cancelling them excessively difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
Dolphin brought heavy rain to Japan's Okinawa island, cutting power to tens of thousands of buildings, toppling trees and cancelling flights.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
That meant cancelling a trip last spring to Texas to watch the SpaceX Starship launch with his brother.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
But what if you could arrange the waves so that reflecting waves, instead of cancelling out the new waves, would reinforce them?
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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