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Recent Examples of postponement
Graf nonetheless agreed to the defense team's request for a postponement in the hearing, which is expected to take up to four days — moving it from the week of May 18 to early July.
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Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
Cassidy, a medical doctor, has broken with the HHS secretary on multiple occasions, including slamming a change to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants and calling for the postponement of key vaccine advisory panel meetings.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 17 May 2026
There had been a lack of clarity on whether referee Don Robertson had blown the full-time whistle to signal the official ending of the match, with failing to do so opening the possibility of a match postponement and the game not formally being concluded.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 16 May 2026
The market currently anticipates that Cloud revenue growth will exceed the impending depreciation surge, but any postponement in monetizing enterprise AI could reverse this scenario and impact the stock multiple negatively.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Both systems also face a postponement of increases in funding promised in the past — unchanged from the first version of the budget in January.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Her organization and others have filed legal challenges about the primary postponement.
—Miles Parks, NPR, 14 May 2026
Although the postponement was strongly contested by Lens, coach Pierre Sage’s side had no say in the matter.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
Tuesday’s rain forced postponement of a number of region semifinal games.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 18 May 2026
Cassidy, a medical doctor, has broken with the HHS secretary on multiple occasions, including slamming a change to the hepatitis B vaccine schedule for infants and calling for the postponement of key vaccine advisory panel meetings.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 17 May 2026
There had been a lack of clarity on whether referee Don Robertson had blown the full-time whistle to signal the official ending of the match, with failing to do so opening the possibility of a match postponement and the game not formally being concluded.
—Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 16 May 2026
The market currently anticipates that Cloud revenue growth will exceed the impending depreciation surge, but any postponement in monetizing enterprise AI could reverse this scenario and impact the stock multiple negatively.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
Both systems also face a postponement of increases in funding promised in the past — unchanged from the first version of the budget in January.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Her organization and others have filed legal challenges about the primary postponement.
—Miles Parks, NPR, 14 May 2026
Although the postponement was strongly contested by Lens, coach Pierre Sage’s side had no say in the matter.
—ABC News, 13 May 2026
Tuesday’s rain forced postponement of a number of region semifinal games.
—Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for postponement
Noun
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The delays in filling housing through the city’s lottery have knock-on effects beyond the apartments not going quickly to the people who need them.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
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Consumers can track a package or rideshare driver in real time, yet hospitals still struggle to reliably exchange imaging studies, authorization records and clinical documentation without delays, duplication or manual intervention.—
Demetri Giannikopoulos,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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In many cases, beneficiaries could stretch distributions over their own life expectancy, which allowed for tax deferral and spread the income tax bill over years, or even decades, when IRAs were left to grandkids.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Commissioner Rolando Escalona, the item’s co-sponsor, voted against the deferral.—
Tess Riski
May 14,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2026
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This includes in-school periods, post-graduation grace periods, default periods, bankruptcy periods, and any deferment and forbearance periods before the most recent consolidation of a borrower’s federal student loans.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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In the first quarter of 2026, 160,000 student loan borrowers were enrolled in the unemployment deferment, according to Kantrowitz.—
Annie Nova,
CNBC,
6 Apr. 2026
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“Postponement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postponement. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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