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Worried about losing the business tax and having to make huge cuts to city services, Bass and the council struck a deal to postpone the $30 wage hike by 18 months.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Presidents sometimes postpone difficult foreign-policy decisions during campaign season, especially when their party is hurtling toward defeat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

With the airport shuttered, Saudi Arabia has been forced to cancel or postpone high-profile events, including a star-studded tennis tournament.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 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

“Is this some trick to postpone your punishment?”

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

“Today’s decision merely postpones adjudication of those challenges,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in one dissent, joined by Justice Elena Kagan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

The plan also postpones more complex negotiations over its nuclear programme, a major sticking point for Trump.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Gen. Ambrose Burnside as commander of the Army of the Potomac, “but if the couchant lion postpones his spring too long, people will begin wondering whether he is not a stuffed specimen after all.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

Billy Joel postpones his tour to take a four-month break to focus on his health and recovery from an undisclosed ‘medical condition.’

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025

Where the sufferer, at the request of the person in default, postpones purchase or sale, any increased loss thereby caused falls on the defaulter.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Lufthansa Group, which was initially planning to resume services to Dubai in October, postponed its return until at least late November.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Spanish football federation announced following De Miguel's death that Tuesday's Spanish Cup fixtures had been postponed.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

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

If only this whole thing could be postponed for a few hours, until he had rested some!

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

Still, there is something peculiar about postponing industry-wide traceability requirements while ordinary shoppers are left scanning their broccoli with smartphones, hoping to learn something useful about where it came from.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Those who did come in were significantly more likely to require hospitalization than U.S.-born patients, suggesting that they were postponing treatment until they were seriously ill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

U.S. assistance may also be about postponing some unpleasant financial developments at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Castellucci is accused of postponing work on pier number 9 and faces 18 years in prison.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

All he was doing was postponing the inevitable, not that he knew what the inevitable would be.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer