How to Use abeyance in a Sentence
abeyance
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The merger would have held that in abeyance for three years.
—Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
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It will be held in abeyance until the appeal can be heard.
—Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2020
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The remaining 40 days will be held in abeyance for five years.
—Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2021
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The world hasn’t stopped, but our human social lives are in abeyance.
—Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020
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The judge held the case in abeyance until the parties could work out a solution.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
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My whole life—the good, the bad, and the ugly—is being held in abeyance now, while Elton John is singing in Leningrad.
—Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
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It was held in abeyance for nearly five decades until the high court struck down Roe vs. Wade last year.
—Todd Richmond, ajc, 4 May 2023
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The discipline will be held in abeyance until the process is complete.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2021
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The consensus of analysts is that the crisis may be in abeyance for the moment, but is far from over.
—Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2021
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The judges’ comments came as the court voted yesterday to hold the case in abeyance for another 60 days.
—Niina Heikkinen, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
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Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
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The actors clutched their scripts while members of the hair-and-makeup team attended to them, attempting to keep sweat and grime in abeyance.
—Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
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His suspension is being held in abeyance until the appeal is heard.
—Jeff Wallner, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
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Failing that, a foreclosure case filed by the town — but held in abeyance so a site plan could be developed — will go forward.
—David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
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And there is the matter of what would become of Earn and Van (and Lottie), a question posed at the very beginning of the series and held in abeyance through much of what followed.
—Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
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Bessner agreed to a five-day suspension in the case, though four of those days were held in abeyance, according to State Police records obtained by the Free Press.
—John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
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In effect, all pending cases in various courts have been held in abeyance.
—Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 10 May 2022
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Kentucky has held her disciplinary case in abeyance pending the resolution of the Ohio case.
—Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 20 Nov. 2019
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Then the new monarch can decide whether to bestow it on his brother or another member of the family — or hold it in abeyance for a time in the future.
—Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
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Here’s a look at some of the tougher possible penalties that U.S. leaders are holding in abeyance — while watching for new Russian steps against Ukraine.
—Ellen Knickmeyer and Fatima Hussein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2022
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The commission held in abeyance the decision as to further adjusting the schedule.
—Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 17 July 2017
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Since the inauguration, the case has been placed on abeyance at 90-day intervals as Congress and the White House dithered over whether the subsidies should or would be paid.
—Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
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Having children, all the kind of the daily decisions of life, the future is just held in abeyance, it’s got to be really distressing.
—Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021
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Most of Bourne's 90-day suspension – 75 days – was held in abeyance for one year given that Bourne followed the remedial measures required by the court.
—Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
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Then Tagovailoa fractured the second metacarpal bone in his left hand during the first offseason practice last month, leaving the team's offense in a state of abeyance.
—Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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Some observers say that the Obama-era case could be held in abeyance until a potential new case comes up against the Trump-era regulations, at which time the high court may combine both.
—John D. McKinnon, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
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His characters are people emblematic of our time, when the notions of duty and sacrifice are by and large in abeyance.
—Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 5 July 2017
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But as the disease moves into abeyance, film productions appear to be resuming.
—Vivienne Chow, Variety, 8 June 2022
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Plans to build a next-generation frigate at a second yard, which Ingalls had a good chance of winning, now are in abeyance, as are plans to build a next-generation destroyer.
—Loren Thompson, Forbes, 13 May 2022
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Hope and anticipation have not gone dormant, have not settled in abeyance, just in impatience.
—Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022
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