delay
Example Sentences
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Developers are miffed by the delay, Burton said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
The company is exploring a U.S. listing of its inter-satellite data delay system business.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Current medications do not cure the disease, but rather -- at most -- delay its progression by several months.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
But going public requires making a company's internal finances public, a process that both loss-making companies will want to delay for as long as possible.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Brahe’s caution about committing himself to this, the dissolution of the celestial spheres, is probably what had caused the delay in publication.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing delay
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