postponement
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The diplomat also questioned whether elections would take place in December and said a postponement remained possible.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
League One carries on playing unless clubs get three call-ups which meet the EFL's criteria, then a postponement can be requested.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
She would have been extremely reluctant to allow an 11th hour postponement after months of preparation and marathon pre-trial legal battles.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Those hopes will have to wait, as organizers announced the cancellation and postponement of the festival on Friday, including its main show Aug. 22-23 on Dockweiler Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
“I think if it’s a long postponement they’d threaten to sue and you’d end up losing the job.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The defence and prosecution have fought a series of legal battles in the approach to Marimi's trial, which is now scheduled to get underway on 19 January after three postponements.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The postponements are so frequent and the sums so astronomical that it’s becoming a sport among the literati to come up with new ways to make the numbers make sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Gadd’s smash hit “Baby Reindeer” hadn’t premiered when the nine-month, five-round search for young Niall and Ruben started, with the success of Gadd’s Emmy-winning Netflix series contributing to various postponements on “Half Man.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
The case has been closely monitored by human rights groups including Amal Clooney's Clooney Foundation for Justice, which in October questioned the lengthy detainment, citing "repeated postponements and slow progress".
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
The other war, the bloody one of twenty years, did not cause them as much damage as the corrosive war of eternal postponements.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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