postponed
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In July, hearings related to more than 2,000 of those cases were postponed until later this year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026
The country, the poorest in the Americas, was due to hold presidential and legislative elections this December and next February, but postponed them several weeks ago.
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
Tom Jones has postponed two California concerts after coming down with a “bad case of the flu.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Next month, there will be a UK-EU Summit in Brussels, which was due to happen in the summer but was postponed when Sir Keir Starmer resigned.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
At that time Aureliano Segundo postponed any appointments in order to be with Meme, to take her to the movies or the circus, and he spent the greater part of his idle time with her.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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