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Recent Examples of deferment
Instead, contact your loan servicer to request a temporary deferment or forbearance.
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Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The finale left details of their lopsided arrangement a bit fuzzy, and Season 3 starts with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and especially Anthony (Mario Cantone) giving Carrie significant side-eye about Aidan’s five-year deferment.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
The legislation would also nix the unemployment deferment and economic hardship deferment, both of which student loan borrowers use to pause their payments during periods of financial difficulty.
—Annie Nova,kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,lorie Konish,jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci,ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 22 May 2025
These are requests by public service workers to retroactively count certain past forbearance or deferment months as qualifying payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness under a program created by recent PSLF regulations.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
The finale left details of their lopsided arrangement a bit fuzzy, and Season 3 starts with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and especially Anthony (Mario Cantone) giving Carrie significant side-eye about Aidan’s five-year deferment.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 28 May 2025
The legislation would also nix the unemployment deferment and economic hardship deferment, both of which student loan borrowers use to pause their payments during periods of financial difficulty.
—Annie Nova,kate Dore, Cfp®, Ea,lorie Konish,jessica Dickler,greg Iacurci,ana Teresa Solá, CNBC, 22 May 2025
These are requests by public service workers to retroactively count certain past forbearance or deferment months as qualifying payments toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness under a program created by recent PSLF regulations.
—Shahar Ziv, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for deferment
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Meanwhile, another report from Vanguard shows the average savings rate for employee deferrals was 7.7% in 2024, matching record-high levels from the previous year.—
Sharon Epperson,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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During that proceeding, a judge granted deferral of his removal to Jamaica over those concerns.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
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The Trump budget cuts now mean Europe may have to go it alone, possibly facing further delays.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
30 June 2025
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Axiom Space Mission 4, a private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, launched on Wednesday after an extended delay due to a long-standing leak issue at the in-orbit research facility.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
29 June 2025
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“Deferment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deferment. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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