deferred

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The estimate is based on personal income tax withholding trends and includes cash bonuses paid for work performed in 2025 and bonuses deferred from prior years that have been cashed in.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

On the ground in Texas, doubts were often muted -- or deferred entirely to Trump himself.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Projections last year from the New York Fed showed the Fed could have operating profits this year, and that it could extinguish the deferred asset by the end of the decade.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Out of 577,725 university offers made in the 2025-26 academic year, 36,925 students deferred their offers.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

In Seattle, Al Ulbrickson deferred the varsity turnout until October 21.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown