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How to use the word Cancel in a Sentence?

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If the bill passes, Knox Pride has no reason to cancel their parade or festivities, unless they plan on their entire event being made up of overtly sexual drag performances.

Molly Gormley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The reason Big Tech can censor, silence, de-platform, or cancel conservatives is because they have monopoly power, and they use their monopoly power to shutter small businesses and crush competition. Section 230 reform is not going to pass this Congress. Antitrust reforms can pass if Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan get out of the way.

Mike Davis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It seemed to me that they were really close to our area but it turned out to be air defense, not a single attack will cancel the fact that we will celebrate the new year with the family.

Halyna Hladka

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Iconsider initiatives in certain regions to cancel New Year's holiday events for children under the pretext of supporting the armed forces to be premature and unnecessary.

Getty Images

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The YU administration's announcement today that The YU administration will cancel all student club activities rather than accept one LGBTQ peer support group on campus is a throwback to 50 years ago when the city of Jackson, Mississippi closed all public swimming pools rather than comply with court orders to desegregate.

Katie Rosenfeld

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think trying to turn Wen into a target to cancel is ridiculous, i consider public health response to Covid to be a mess, and I think part of the reason Wen has become a lightning rod is, she's kind of being put out there as an example by people in public health who are disappointed or frustrated of that failure.

Art Caplan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is illegal. The president doesn't have the authority to do this. He's not an emperor. He can't just with the stroke of a pen cancel $300-$400 billion worth of student loans, it's unfair. Eighty-five percent of the people in this country do not have a student loan. They either had one and paid it or they don't have one, and that 85% is gonna pay for the 15% who got a tangible benefit.

Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Inflation Reduction Act saves maybe $ 300 billion dollars in the first 10 years. If we cancel $ 10,000 of debt and just extend the pause a few months, we're going to be at about that much in terms of new cost, all the deficit reduction will be wiped out. At the same time, we're probably going to do more to increase inflation from debt cancellation than any inflation reduction from The Inflation Reduction Act.

Kent Smetters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Ayanna Pressley should cancel all of it. The problem is inflation might shoot up because we don't yet have guardrails in place for price gouging.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can lose weight, and it not be a game of obsession, you can still enjoy the foods that you like, and you don't have to cancel plans with friends. You can still live a full life and still be on a weight-loss journey.

Sarah Williams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm not in bed with any big corporate things. At the end of the day, there's nobody I'm beholden to. No record companies, no corporate interests, no nothing. And you can't cancel me. I love it when they try.

Kid Rock

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct, they used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election.

Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Swedish Football Association is disappointed with FIFA’s decision but is determined to continue to work together with other federations to cancel Russia’s matches in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

The FIFA Bureau

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This entire situation started when he refused to use common sense and cancel the cross-border vaccine mandate for the truckers, instead, he continued to wedge, divide, and stigmatize Canadians.

Leslyn Lewis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Gov. McCrory moved to Greensboro in 1966 and was very aware of the profound impact the Woolworth sit-ins had on that community and the nation, those students were and are heroes to him because they stood up against the ultimate wrong. And their example drives Gov. McCrory to call-out cancel culture where it exists today, whether in politics, religion, academia, business, or media.

Jordan Shaw

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I guess if you want to cancel your teacher you just have to e-mail the governor in Virginia and I guess rat them out in other ways in other states.

Jim Acosta

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today I exercised my power under section 133C(3) of the Migration Act to cancel the visa held by Mr Novak Djokovic on health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.

Alex Hawke

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The only way I can do one more special is if it’s at the end of my television career because it will end my television career, we’re in the cancel culture now. No stand-up that is sponsor-driven can say anything he wants to. Chris Rock can’t. Kevin Hart can’t. Cedric the Entertainer can’t. D.L. Hughley can’t. I can go down the list. The only person that can say what they want to say on stage is Dave Chappelle because he’s not sponsor-driven. He’s subscription-driven.

Steve Harvey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

But like think about it, in the past, in Chicago, it's wintertime. In the past, if you've got a blizzard, you've got two options. You can hold the school during the blizzard, right? In which case what? You know that most people aren't going to come. It can be dangerous to get there. It's going to put people at risk or you could cancel school. Those are the only two options you had. Now we have a third option. We could hold school remotely.

Jesse Sharkey

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

On behalf of the entire President Trump family, we wish everyone a merry Christmas and a very, very happy New Year, president Trump wants everyone to celebrate Christmas and holidays, including you, while Democrats want to cancel Christmas gatherings. Get your President Trump family Christmas card for every contribution of at least $ 35.

President Trump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The problem the NFL is seeing is that they started testing a lot of people, and they were finding positives, and they had to deal with that and cancel games, postpone games, do things like that, which is affecting their ability to play.

Brian Labus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Check the Covid-19 infection rates in your area, just as you would a weather forecast. Keep an eye on Omicron and, importantly, Delta. Be ready to modify plans, though I wouldn't cancel on account of the new variant just yet.

Leana Wen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The majority of Walmart + memberships are probably just people trying to get The PS5 and then going to cancel The PS5 after they obtain The PS5.

Nicole DeSantis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every time they try to cancel me, I say it louder and louder. So let me say this very, very clearly : I believe this election was stolen from Donald Trump.

Josh Mandel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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