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Discover LudwigThe phrase "delaying the" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to show that someone is causing a delay or holding back something. Example: The construction on the highway was delaying the morning commute for hours.
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It could only be delaying the inevitable.
Delaying the pain will only increase it.
That is delaying the day".
Golding spent months delaying the extradition request.
Gone are the demands for delaying the health law, or delaying the individual mandate, or delaying the medical device tax.
Additional offshore work is delaying the project, he added.
After delaying the start, Point Given broke slowly.
"Delaying the [sanctions] designations would be catnip for critics.
"The town is simply delaying the inevitable disclosure," he said.
"They're sort of delaying the inevitable," he said.
He had been stalling, prolonging the planning, delaying the act.
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