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When Kubrick explained that the resulting movie would be seven hours long, they agreed to shelve the script.

Today, Selig issued a 211-game suspension that would shelve the Yankee star for the rest of the year and all of next.

If they read Nelson carefully, they'll hear a muted warning to shelve Paul Ryan's budget plans.

That's really expensive, and it requires a lot of labor to keep track of all of those SKUs, figure out where to shelve them, etc.

So should we shelve the personal-empowerment movement if we want to have long and happy marriages?

Observe thief, but thieves and to thieve; loaf, but loaves; shelf, but shelves and to shelve.

These are the momentous, the pressing questions which a man can only shelve at his peril.

Two more rooms were taken over from the Legislative Council in 1881 and temporarily the Library could shelve all its books.

Dr Chapple has done nothing more than shelve it, for as we have seen his remedy is both practically and morally impossible.

Oh, perhaps the next time we chat together, he laughed, anxious to shelve the matter for the moment.

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On this page you'll find 56 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to shelve, such as: freeze, give in/give up, mothball, prolong, put off, and suspend.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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