as in to postpone
to assign to a later time
let's shelve the project for now
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Recent Examples of shelve
Charlotte Transportation Center Charlotte Area Transit System has shelved plans to rebuild the nearly 30-year-old Charlotte Transportation Center as part of a mixed-use development.
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Alexandria Sands, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
And in North Carolina, 832 kits – about 5% of the state’s overall backlog – remained shelved because there had been plea deals or guilty verdicts.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Searchlight’s bodybuilding drama Magazine Dreams, which was shelved due to the actor’s legal troubles and saw Majors receive rave reviews, may hit theaters next year.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
At the suggestion of the police commissioner, Fairstein’s team in 1999 began cataloguing the untested rape kits shelved in New York Police Department evidence storage, ultimately tallying 17,000.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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Alexandria Sands, Axios, 17 Dec. 2024
And in North Carolina, 832 kits – about 5% of the state’s overall backlog – remained shelved because there had been plea deals or guilty verdicts.
—Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
Searchlight’s bodybuilding drama Magazine Dreams, which was shelved due to the actor’s legal troubles and saw Majors receive rave reviews, may hit theaters next year.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
At the suggestion of the police commissioner, Fairstein’s team in 1999 began cataloguing the untested rape kits shelved in New York Police Department evidence storage, ultimately tallying 17,000.
—Jayme Fraser, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2024
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Further postponing the vehicle would only add to the problem because the vehicle’s high payroll costs would just be carried forward.Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2024
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That case was appealed to the Supreme Court, but the court declined to hear it, thereby at least postponing the day when the Supreme Court would rule on whether a charter school is a state actor or not.Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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Halo Infinite was delayed a year and arrived with a somewhat underwhelming launch.Paul Tassi, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Then, a calf contusion delayed the start to his rookie season.Hunter Patterson, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Federal officials would not provide details about the patient’s symptoms, deferring all inquiries to Louisiana’s Department of Public Health. Emails and calls to that agency went unanswered.Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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In the last admissions cycle, approximately 83% of those who applied to Harvard early were deferred.Christopher Rim, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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“Shelve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shelve. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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