as in delays
to assign to a later time
let's shelve the project for now
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Recent Examples of shelves
Clean the wood cabinet doors monthly and the interior shelves every three to six months.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 4 Mar. 2026
The result was a fun cameo arc that ends on the image of Scorsese breaking down in tears after Matt shelves the iconic director’s dream project to save his own job — a turn that earned Scorsese his first acting nomination.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 4 Mar. 2026
The result was a fun cameo arc that ends on the image of Scorsese breaking down in tears after Matt shelves the iconic director’s dream project to save his own job — a turn that earned Scorsese his first acting nomination.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
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With annuals like snapdragons, removing flower stalks delays the formation of seed production and the plants send out more shoots.—
Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
21 Mar. 2026
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Too much light in the evening — that extra hour from daylight saving time — delays that surge and the cycle gets out of sync.—
Lauran Neergaard,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Mar. 2026
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Instead, the sentencing for the teenager falls under a process known as Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile, which postpones an adult sentence until his 21st birthday.—
Conor Wight,
CBS News,
28 Feb. 2026
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Discord postpones age verification Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy after receiving swift backlash from users with concerns about their privacy.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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Glasgow brings years of executive experience at companies like Meta and Google and holds over 50 issued or pending patents in areas like search, data mining, and commerce.—
Julia Black,
Vanity Fair,
10 Mar. 2026
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More crucially for the island's future is that Cuba’s private sector has also relentlessly eroded the control that Cuba’s military conglomerate GAESA holds over the country’s economy.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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“Shelves.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shelves. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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