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as in abandons
to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)
please call to cancel your appointment with the dentist if you can't make it
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as in abolishes
to put an end to by formal action
the agreement can be canceled by either side with a formal written notice
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as in deletes
to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it
canceled the check and wrote a new one
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as in erases
to destroy all traces of
it seemed as though all honor and decency had been canceled by the war's new moral order
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Recent Examples of cancels
After her family cancels holiday plans at the last minute, Nell decides to spend the week of Christmas having fun on her own!
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Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Miami cancels school, orders state of emergency About 10 minutes to the west, the community of Miami was also recovering from intense flooding.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency cancels National Fire Training Academy classes.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
SpaceX cancels a launch to bring astronauts home.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Imagine a friend cancels plans at the last minute.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Or use a site like Campnab to snag a campsite when someone cancels.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
Every now and then, one of the world's greatest opera singers cancels an appearance at the last minute.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
The program's terms explain that the airline views the monthly pass as a 30-day period, and automatically renews unless the passholder cancels the pass by midnight Mountain Time on the final day of the pass's month.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2025
Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Miami cancels school, orders state of emergency About 10 minutes to the west, the community of Miami was also recovering from intense flooding.
—Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 28 Sep. 2025
The Federal Emergency Management Agency cancels National Fire Training Academy classes.
—Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 14 Mar. 2025
SpaceX cancels a launch to bring astronauts home.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2025
Imagine a friend cancels plans at the last minute.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025
Or use a site like Campnab to snag a campsite when someone cancels.
—Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025
Every now and then, one of the world's greatest opera singers cancels an appearance at the last minute.
—Ew Staff, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2025
The program's terms explain that the airline views the monthly pass as a 30-day period, and automatically renews unless the passholder cancels the pass by midnight Mountain Time on the final day of the pass's month.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancels
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When the company abandons its traditional Nutcracker for a childless, avant-garde version — thus denying Harris’s daughter the starring role she’s dreamed of — Harris leaps into action.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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Strangely, the show abandons her storyline just after the midpoint of the season.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Instead, this measure abolishes them.—
Jon Coupal,
Oc Register,
31 Aug. 2025
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The Iranian parliament has just approved a law that abolishes prison sentences for those who had to leave Iran illegally.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Aug. 2025
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In contrast, lossy audio is a compressed file format that deletes some of the original audio information.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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BuzzFeed deletes the post and makes an attempt at an apology that gets deleted quickly.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
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The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.—
Isa Cardona,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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This turnover erases institutional knowledge, disrupts relationships, and leads to inconsistent policy enforcement.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
10 Oct. 2025
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Disbarment, which revokes a lawyer's license to practice law, is the most severe professional sanction for attorneys.—
Mandy Taheri,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Missouri isn’t a state that automatically revokes a police license when an officer is convicted of a serious crime.—
Katie Moore,
Kansas City Star,
22 Sep. 2025
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The House spending bill would use that power as a cudgel, halting congressional approval of FASB’s budget (see page 108) until the accounting agency repeals its new disclosure rules.—
Howard Gleckman,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
Verb
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And in recent years, Major League Baseball has been pushing the World Series later into the year as playoffs expand and the league avoids Sunday games so as not to overlap with the NFL.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The agent logs only essential identifiers, avoids storing raw sensor data, caps how much and how often information is recorded, and disables third-party analytics by default.—
Keivan Navaie,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Cancels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancels. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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