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cancel

[kan-suhl] / ˈkæn səl /




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Learning how to fall and pretending you have superpowers can’t cancel out physics.

From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026

Last summer West was set to headline London's Wireless Festival but was barred from entering the UK, forcing organisers to cancel the whole event.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Churn, meaning the percentage of paying subscribers who cancel each year, is reasonably modest, at 15%, as well.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

It has also pushed states to cancel over 30,000 commercial driving licenses illegally issued to foreign drivers and purged over 8,000 unqualified training schools from the federal motor carrier registry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Being spiteful and threatening to cancel the movie so everyone’s work would’ve been for nothing?

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

Inspectors also found the service frequently uses overtime and cancels officers rest days in order to meet operational demand.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 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

In the U.S., if the airline cancels the flight for any reason, you are eligible for a full refund if you choose not to take vouchers, credits, or alternative travel offered by the airline.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 11, 2026

In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

OpenAI canceled the release of a new model, Astra 6.1, because it deemed the model unreliable and found that it frequently ignored instructions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The series, which was canceled after its first season, is based on an alternate-universe Spider-Man known as Spider-Man Noir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Galán declined to be interviewed for Carr’s documentary, having been thoroughly raked over the coals once the public’s visceral disgust with “The Swan” got it canceled after its second season.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Yankees drafted Schlittler in the seventh round in 2022, and selected Rice in the 12th round in 2021 after the Ivy League canceled his season.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

I answered, though I didn’t point out that that was because she had canceled on me every single time we’d made plans to hang out after school.

From "Auggie & Me" by R. J. Palacio

Popular use cases of Meta’s viral AI agent include processing refunds, canceling subscriptions and negotiating lower home- and car-insurance rates.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

In addition, the White House was warned that canceling TPS for Salvadorans would disrupt construction projects in Washington, D.C., the New Yorker reported and a source with knowledge of the warnings confirmed they had occurred.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The outlandish privilege of changing or canceling your reservation?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Insurers like Humana are canceling some Medicare Advantage plans.

From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026

I imagined him canceling the request for backup.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

Earlier this year publisher Hachette cancelled the release of horror novel "Shy Girl" by Mia Ballard in the United States and withdrew the book from sale in Britain over allegations of AI use.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

On the eve of kick-off, the Stallions were still stranded in Morocco after their connecting flight to Buenos Aires was cancelled.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

RSF has said that a third country has offered him asylum, without specifying which, but that departures planned for February and June were cancelled after Thai immigration authorities withheld exit clearance without explanation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The proposal to add more trains on the West Coast Main Line would "likely increase delays and cancelled trains for passengers", the regulator said.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

If you are bitten by a Malaclaw, all bets, wagers and speculative ventures should be cancelled, as they are sure to go against the victim.

From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling

The ministry also said it would bring changes to the school calendar, including cancelling holidays, to make up for classes missed because of the strike.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Muse, Instinct and agents like them promise to make your life easier by planning vacations, sorting calendars and cancelling subscription plans.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

She said cancelling surgeries was "absolutely the right thing to do".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Kristersson was due to hold a speech in Stockholm in the evening but told media he was cancelling it to focus on the incident.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 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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