cancels

present tense third-person singular of cancel
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Example Sentences

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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! 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
Verb
  • 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
  • Strangely, the show abandons her storyline just after the midpoint of the season.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Instead, this measure abolishes them.
    Jon Coupal, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Verb
  • In contrast, lossy audio is a compressed file format that deletes some of the original audio information.
    Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
  • BuzzFeed deletes the post and makes an attempt at an apology that gets deleted quickly.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The Amazon Basin builds and erases its own geography through its rivers.
    Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
  • This turnover erases institutional knowledge, disrupts relationships, and leads to inconsistent policy enforcement.
    Peter White, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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