postpone
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The supervisor of New York City’s pension funds, one of the largest in the United States, asked Anthropic to postpone its stock market debut until risks posed by its artificial intelligence technology are better controlled.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Last year, Manilow revealed that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and that surgery would require him to postpone several performances.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
"They will postpone it until conditions become really unliveable," she says.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Oura became the latest company to postpone its initial public offering on Tuesday, citing “uncertainty in the IPO market.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
She’d even decided to postpone her trip to Mecca again.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
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The deal, set to be signed Friday, also postpones rather than resolves the conflict’s central disputes.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
For the insurer, that only postpones the pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
For the huge insurer, that only postpones the pain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
With ex-husband Brandon Blackstock ill, Clarkson postpones the balance of her August residency dates in Las Vegas so she can be ‘fully present’ for her kids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
This condition has its advantages; very particularly that it postpones, or averts, family introductions.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
In Madera, organizers postponed the third annual Oaxacan Guelaguetza festival, amid growing fears, according to the group’s Facebook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Palestinian factions including Abbas's Fatah party and its longtime Islamist rival Hamas had agreed to recommend the elections be postponed at a meeting in Cairo on Wednesday, a source who was present told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
A number of airlines have halted flights to Riyadh, and Singapore Airlines postponed the launch of its flights to the capital until March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
For example, one study found that rises in interest rates postponed lifestyle moves to independent living communities for four to five years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
From the newspaper she learned that the opening of the traditional autumn hay maze had been postponed due to excessive rain.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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But some countries, including Saudi Arabia, India and China, say that postponing the "seventh assessment report" until 2029 will provide developing countries more time to absorb its findings.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
In the final agreement, the supervisory board only asked Blume and his team to “develop a model for an evolved decision-making and group structure,” postponing the power struggle to another day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“Waiting and postponing is not, in my opinion, an option.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
Czech Railways have told passengers they should consider postponing their trips if they do not have to travel.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
He had the responsibility more than all the other gods together of postponing as long as possible the day of doom, Ragnarok, when heaven and earth would be destroyed.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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