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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

Thailand has advised its citizens to postpone non-essential travel to parts of Europe rocked by protests, while Malaysia also warned its nationals about visiting France.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Slowing its development can postpone new defenses and leave existing threats in place.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

She hadn’t been to the salon in four days, and so my dad found her appointment book and called all her regular customers to indefinitely postpone their appointments.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

For the huge insurer, that only postpones the pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 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

The young adult rom-com follows Avery Blackwell, a rising college freshman who postpones her plans to attend Columbia after a note from her late mother sends her on a scavenger hunt in England.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2025

“It only postpones the evil day of telling them the jewels were lost in the fire,” observed Mary.

From The Motor Maids' School Days by Katherine Stokes

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 2027 Asian Cup is just the latest event to be postponed in the Middle East amid concerns about missile attacks by Yemen's Houthi movement.

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

When he finished, he announced that the trial would be postponed until Wednesday morning because the prosecution and the defense wanted to interview surprise witnesses the prosecution had just subpoenaed.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

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

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

Judge Dabney Friedrich cited "newly discovered evidence" and "evidence located in other countries" as the reason for postponing the trial.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Waiting and postponing is not, in my opinion, an option.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Yesterday Peter and I finally got around to having the talk we’ve been postponing for the last ten days.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank