suspend

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Government sources have told the BBC that Turner has had previous written warnings, but the decision to suspend the whip will be kept under review.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Early in the war, concerns about the war led some producers in the region to suspend production.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2026

A “federal contractor with whom Anthropic has built custom applications has indicated that it may suspend that work or even remove Claude from existing deployments,” the company says in its lawsuit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The FAA is investigating the incident, including whether “a new measure to suspend the use of visual separation between airplanes and helicopters was applied,” the agency spokesperson wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

I just remember a period when, convinced that an apostrophe was definitely required somewhere, I would cunningly suspend a very small one immediately above the “s”, to cover all eventualities.

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