cancels

present tense third-person singular of cancel
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Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of cancels 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 Spirit’s bankruptcy plan cancels existing equity shares and hands ownership to Spirit’s lenders, which include investment funds managed by Pacific Investment Management Company, UBS Asset Management and Citadel Advisors. Reuters, CNN, 21 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancels
Verb
  • No More Harkening back to the classic storyline which introduced the world to Kingpin, this new card features art from Aniekan Udofia extremely reminiscent of the panel in which Spider-Man abandons his costume.
    Jennifer Maas, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Escalating military pressure abandons the living hostages to their fate and leaves the bodies of those already dead buried forever in Gaza’s rubble.
    Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 30 Aug. 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
  • Reducing Zarutska’s cruel and untimely death to racist memes also erases the role that mental health — something that Republicans are happy to bring up whenever a white mass shooter guns down Americans in cold blood — likely played in the ghastly crime.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Something that erases any evidence of itself?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Termination can occur immediately if the NBPA suspends or revokes an agent’s certification, but Turner capably performed his duties.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If Cal Fire revokes the licenses, Devastating Pyrotechnics owner Kenneth Chee and BlackStar Fireworks owner Craig Cutright could be fined and will be barred from reapplying for the licenses for one year.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 16 Aug. 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
  • Shifting key conversations to group settings builds alignment, avoids silos and saves time.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The new system avoids this brute-force approach.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Producing traditional paper destroys trees and is resource-intensive, requiring up to 13 liters of water for every page made.
    Sandy Ong, JSTOR Daily, 11 Sep. 2025
  • In those situations, the team typically takes the potentially explosive item to a remote area and destroys it, just to be safe, Putthoff said.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Cancels.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancels. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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