as in to suspend
to bring to a formal close for a period of time
the conference was prorogated until the following morning
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Many schools also suspended classes for the day in protest.—
Fayaz Bukhari,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025 -
In response, the Department of Education temporarily suspended IDR processing, which then resumed again a few months later.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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It will either get postponed, or prepare for the entire group not to make it out of the groupchat.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
29 Apr. 2025
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The sainthood ceremony of Carlo Acutis, a scheduled highlight of this Jubilee of Teenagers, was postponed.—
John Bacon,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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To meet legal requirements, the City Council adjourned its regular Tuesday meeting at 5:30 p.m., called the special meeting to order and voted on the funding repairs, adjourned, then immediately resumed the regular meeting.—
Gary Warth,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
27 Mar. 2025
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Ho adjourned the case against Adams indefinitely but decided to leave in place the federal corruption indictment hanging over the head of the mayor of America's largest city.—
Peter Charalambous,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2025
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Hudson reportedly interrupted the interview multiple times, according to Pro Football Talk, a subsidiary of NBC Sports.—
Boston Herald Wire Services,
Boston Herald,
1 May 2025
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Martin O'Malley, who was commissioner of the agency under President Joe Biden, has repeatedly said that staffing cuts and DOGE works threaten to interrupt the delivery of benefits.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Prorogate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prorogate. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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