as in suspended
to bring to a formal close for a period of time
the legislative session was prorogued for the summer
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Earlier this year, China and India agreed to resume direct flights, which had been suspended since the COVID pandemic.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
16 Oct. 2025 -
The Warsaw team replaced that entire setup with atoms of rubidium suspended in a glass cell and illuminated by three ultra-stable lasers.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Oct. 2025
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The Eurovision Song Contest was going to hold a vote, in November, on not having Israel compete next year, and that vote has now been postponed.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
16 Oct. 2025
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While the company failed to convince Weksler to issue a stay that would have postponed pretrial discovery, a motion for summary judgement is still pending.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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The government is in shutdown after the Senate adjourned Tuesday evening without passing a funding resolution, and the midnight deadline to keep all federal operations running passed.—
Joshua Sammons,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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After failing to pass the stopgap government funding bills on Wednesday, the Senate adjourned for the Yom Kippur holiday.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
2 Oct. 2025
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The overall idea of Lightning Strikes Twice was to directly follow up 1990’s hit After the Rain, and pretend that the rise of grunge had never interrupted their career path.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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Their clash over wanting a family got interrupted by the fire.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Prorogued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prorogued. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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