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Some $133 million would be cut from a lapsed railroad unemployment insurance program, and $252 million from an Ebola response account, as apparently the money outlived the outbreak. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "A Useful Spending Debate," 13 May 2018 Illinois apparently had a burst of lapsed ambition and shuffled around only $2.5 million. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Governments Steal Emergency Money," 3 May 2018 But other reporting indicates that Singer had a preexisting relationship with the firm, having hired them in 2014 as his hedge fund, Elliott Management, fought the Argentine government over billions of dollars in lapsed debt payments. — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, "The Finance 202: The tax bill gets its first big corporate enemy," 30 Oct. 2017 His father was Wesley Chase Mathews, a railroad worker and a lapsed Mormon descendant of Welsh immigrant coal miners. — Sam Roberts, New York Times, "Tom Mathews, Promoter of Liberal Causes and Candidates, Dies at 96," 26 Oct. 2017 The senator said the bill would resemble a previously lapsed law that required the attorney general to petition a three-judge panel to choose a prosecutor. — Andrew Rafferty, NBC News, "Here Are Three Ways to Have An Independent Russia Inquiry," 10 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lapsed.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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