Claudia Winkleman

If you meet a girl who says: 'Darling, what do you mean? Of course I wear suspenders. I've worn them all my life. I think tights are for old people,' then know this: she's desperate to have kids, she wants you and her to live in the same house as her mum, she never wants to go out and she just wants to lie on your chest for the next 15 years.

English Entertainer

Billy Beane

Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.

American Athlete

Bev Perdue

I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that.

American Politician

Gary Payton

I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn't want that to happen again, didn't want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.

Harry Belafonte

I don't think soldiers should be anywhere in the world. I mean, that is a moral and a basic philosophy. I think that the only way to end wars is to have no military and to find other ways in which - I think we should suspend all nuclear weapons.

American Musician

Graeme Murphy

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

Australian Dancer

LeBron James

I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

American Basketball Player

George Steinbrenner

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

American Businessman

Rupert Penry-Jones

The ability to suspend reality and go into a make-believe world can be really, really difficult if there's something really big going on.

English Actor

Georginio Wijnaldum

It's always a blow for a team if important players get injured or suspended.

Dutch Athlete

Use 'suspend' to indicate a break in activity with the intention of resuming later.

Temporary Pause

'Suspend' often relates to processes or events rather than personal actions.

Impersonal Situations

Describes an object being hung up, commonly without direct support from below.

Physical Hanging

The support mechanism is often not visible or prominent when something is suspended.

Visibility of Support

This use implies a temporary period after which the person might return.

Temporary Removal

Suspension as punishment follows an action deemed inappropriate or against rules.

Consequence of Actions

'Suspend' can indicate an unforeseen interruption in events or activities.

Event Disruptions

Often used in legal, formal, or official contexts to indicate postponement.

Legal & Formal

'Suspend' can reflect an intentional pause to reconsider or doubt something.

Doubt & Uncertainty

It indicates withholding judgment or belief, often for reflection or more evidence.

Cognitive Pause

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Suspend

To stop something for a while.

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To hang something from somewhere.

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To temporarily remove somebody from a job or from school as a punishment.

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To officially delay or stop an opera.

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To make something such as a judgment or belief uncertain or doubtful.

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Temporary Pause

Impersonal Situations

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