Example Sentences

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When earthquakes, floods, fires and other disasters happen, the IRS commonly suspends all sorts of deadlines for impacted taxpayers.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

The ruling also suspends a Pentagon designation of Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI model, as a national security supply chain risk -- a label typically reserved for organizations from unfriendly foreign countries.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Disney temporarily suspends “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on ABC after criticism of his remarks on Charlie Kirk’s killing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Octavia Butler's fictional president, elected in November 2024, brings back indentured servitude and suspends all regulations.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

One of these humming-birds suspends its baglike nest, ingeniously woven of raw cotton, by a string of the same material, to reeds, or cotton-plants.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis