Word of the Day: abeyance

The word abeyance has appeared in four articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 4 in “Chess’s Governing Body Delays Report on Cheating Scandal” by David Segal and Dylan Loeb McClain:

As the controversy at the prestigious Sinquefield Cup became international news, the International Chess Federation, known as FIDE, which is the governing body for the game, promised a full investigation. The report, which was completed in February, was originally supposed to be published in April, according to a post on the organization’s blog.

Now, the wait for answers just got a lot longer.

On Wednesday, a federation official, Dana Reizniece-Ozola, said the report was delayed because the organization “has decided to hold the matter in abeyance until at least October of this year pending possible further developments in the civil suit between the parties.”

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