postponement
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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
The White House, after days of anticipation, announced a postponement of the nuclear talks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The Board of British Deputies of Jews had called the postponement "highly regrettable" and said it was working with the museum to reschedule the event.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Both major oil benchmarks rose Monday and US stock markets closed mixed while investors digested shifting developments in the Middle East, including Trump's announcement of an attack postponement.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Given the calumny New York previously had shoveled on Chicago, the postponement was an act of surprising grace.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
John Rostron, chief executive of the Association of Independent Festivals, says there have been 30 cancellations or postponements so far this year, external but about the same number of events have started up.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
But these postponements mean that policymakers will not receive the latest government data on both fronts before their December 9-10 gathering.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
After recent emergencies, EMD handled recovery duties “on an ad hoc basis,” yielding “delays, postponements and possible denial of disaster relief funds,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
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
Vocabulary lists containing postponement
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ment
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