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
But Mair, too, has had to whittle his lab down to just five people and shelved many of the team’s more ambitious experiments.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The version ultimately was shelved by Disney.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
The delays have been considerable and, though the idea was ultimately shelved, the club gave serious consideration at one stage to leaving the City Ground altogether for a new 50,000-capacity stadium at Toton, southwest of their home city on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
She was also supposed to appear in Pharrell and Michel Gondry’s ambitious musical project Atlantis, but the pair decided to shelve project indefinitely while editing.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Oct. 2025
The version ultimately was shelved by Disney.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
The delays have been considerable and, though the idea was ultimately shelved, the club gave serious consideration at one stage to leaving the City Ground altogether for a new 50,000-capacity stadium at Toton, southwest of their home city on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border.
—Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
She was also supposed to appear in Pharrell and Michel Gondry’s ambitious musical project Atlantis, but the pair decided to shelve project indefinitely while editing.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for shelve
Verb
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The official inauguration, originally scheduled for July 3, 2025, was postponed to the last quarter of the year due to regional conflicts.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Oct. 2025
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Reneé Rapp has postponed the final two Bite Me Tour dates due to illness.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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A day earlier, flights were delayed at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, New Jersey’s Newark airport and Washington’s Reagan National Airport because of air traffic controller shortages.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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His discharge has been delayed due to his father’s detention.—
Zoe Sottile,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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Both sides gave positive signals after trade talks over the weekend, with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent suggesting Beijing would defer its controls on rare earths, while the US would pull back its 100% tariff threat and extend an earlier tariff truce.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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The Trail Blazers deferred comment to the NBA and announced that an assistant coach, Tiago Splitter, would assume head coaching responsibilities.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Shelve.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shelve. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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