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delayed

adjective as in held up

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After being delayed by revolutions, wars, a pandemic and mundane financial setbacks, the museum’s opening has been welcomed here with something close to euphoria.

The discharge ate up roughly a third of the existing stocks and delayed maintenance at the sites.

But the orders were delayed by three hours in West Altadena, where 18 people died and numerous residents raced for their lives as thousands of homes were incinerated.

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It gets stuck, there’s signal problems, people get delayed.

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Riksbank policymakers had cut rates at its previous meeting, expecting an uptick in inflation to prove temporary while an anticipated economic recovery was being delayed and the labor market turnaround was taking longer than expected.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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