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  • John Taylor was kind enough to give us a postponement  (source)
    postponement = delay until a later time
  • We might have to postpone.  (source)
  • PARRIS: Excellency, I would postpone these hangin's for a time.  (source)
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  • They planned to take a family vacation but postponed it.  (source)
    postponed = delayed until a later time
  • We'd have to temporarily postpone our expedition to the Grand Canyon, he told us.†  (source)
    postpone = delay until a later time
  • There would be no postponement due to weather.  (source)
    postponement = the act of delaying until a later time
  • Postponing my decision wasn't going to help.†  (source)
    Postponing = delaying until a later time
  • He said that it had "grown rather vague and dubious" in his mind because of the repeated postponements.†  (source)
  • Where the psalm says: "He hath known my name," the paper said: "He postpones my name," and "I will be with him in trouble: I will deliver him" was garbled into "I will relieve him from darkness."†  (source)
    postpones = delays until a later time
  • He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow's technicals called ruin.†  (source)
  • All further Quidditch training and matches are to be postponed.†  (source)
    postponed = delayed until a later time
  • They were going to emigrate, but had to postpone their plans because Charlotte was pregnant.†  (source)
    postpone = delay until a later time
  • Judge Harry Lemley of Hope, Arkansas, had been named to hear the Little Rock School Board petition asking for a postponement of integration for public schools.†  (source)
    postponement = the act of delaying until a later time
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