as in postponed
to assign to a later time
let's shelve the project for now
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Recent Examples of shelved
Ingram ultimately didn't play a single second for Toronto in 2024-25, as he was shelved by an ankle injury.
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Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
The show, which was slated to be carried live by the network and stream on Peacock, has reportedly been shelved in order to allow Snoop to focus on his gig as a Winter Olympics correspondent.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
But given that peace looks, if anything, farther away now, the Budapest meeting was shelved and Orbán is instead coming to Washington.
—Kim Lane Scheppele, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
The two-hour television special Snoop Dogg’s New Years Eve has been shelved, and not in a fun Elf on the Shelf way.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
The older music isn’t being shelved.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
The project was ultimately deemed too technologically challenging and not significantly better than conventional tanks, and was shelved in 1956.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
Both were quietly shelved last week.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Ashtyn Davis sustained a quadriceps injury that will keep him sidelined against the Ravens, who will benefit from the return of quarterback Lamar Jackson, who was shelved for all of October because of a hamstring injury.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
The show, which was slated to be carried live by the network and stream on Peacock, has reportedly been shelved in order to allow Snoop to focus on his gig as a Winter Olympics correspondent.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025
But given that peace looks, if anything, farther away now, the Budapest meeting was shelved and Orbán is instead coming to Washington.
—Kim Lane Scheppele, Time, 6 Nov. 2025
The two-hour television special Snoop Dogg’s New Years Eve has been shelved, and not in a fun Elf on the Shelf way.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
The older music isn’t being shelved.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
The project was ultimately deemed too technologically challenging and not significantly better than conventional tanks, and was shelved in 1956.
—Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 28 Oct. 2025
Both were quietly shelved last week.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025
Ashtyn Davis sustained a quadriceps injury that will keep him sidelined against the Ravens, who will benefit from the return of quarterback Lamar Jackson, who was shelved for all of October because of a hamstring injury.
—Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for shelved
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Banijay Entertainment profits were up 5% over the first nine months of this year but today’s financials revealed production on some of the super-indie’s shows have been postponed until next year.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
6 Nov. 2025
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Their return date has been postponed indefinitely, according to state broadcaster CCTV, which offered no further details.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
6 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But the bailout merely delayed the inevitable.—
MUHIB RAHMAN,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Nov. 2025
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Some 1,902 flights within, into or out of the United States also were delayed on Tuesday, according to FlightAware, along with the 1,210 that had been canceled.—
Kevin Shalvey,
ABC News,
11 Nov. 2025
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Another of the bills will appear on the same agenda for a public hearing and its second reading, while the last of the four has been deferred until after the new year.—
Austin Hornbostel,
Nashville Tennessean,
5 Nov. 2025
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Delta Air Lines deferred comment to the US Department of Transportation and the FAA.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Shelved.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shelved. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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