as in to expire
to come to an end
in those coin-operated binoculars at scenic areas your viewing time seems to elapse almost before it has begun
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Recent Examples of elapse
This adjustment is based on these two key factors:
The percentage of time elapsed within the game
The type of game state-changing goal scored — equalising or putting their team ahead.
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Mark Carey, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Months elapsed before the impact of an extremely strong El Niño dwindled.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Thirteen years elapsed between executions, and cases of death row inmates started to pile up.
—CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported Obama’s center set a modern record for the time elapsed between the end of a presidency and the opening of a namesake museum.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
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Mark Carey, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025
Months elapsed before the impact of an extremely strong El Niño dwindled.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
Thirteen years elapsed between executions, and cases of death row inmates started to pile up.
—CBS News, 7 Mar. 2025
The Wall Street Journal reported Obama’s center set a modern record for the time elapsed between the end of a presidency and the opening of a namesake museum.
—A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elapse
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Zhao was on a student visa in Australia, which expired in April 2020, according to reports.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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England international Trent Alexander-Arnold is set to leave under freedom of contract once his deal expires in the summer, but Liverpool will have the opportunity to strengthen the weaker areas of their squad while maintaining stability and already having title-winning foundations in place.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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Commentary: Is Trump's plan for tariff relief for automakers too late to stop global impact?—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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At school the next day, he was treated as an art piece, in which his classmates stopped and stared.—
Akili King,
Essence,
30 Apr. 2025
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Major automakers want Congress to bar California's landmark plan to end the sale of gasoline-only vehicles by 2035 that has been adopted by 11 other states, warning the rules could begin impacting vehicle shipments in a few months.—
David Shepardson,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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Now the team is potentially 48 minutes away from its season ending.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2025
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That shouldn’t be a surprise because the Packers would rather cease to exist as a franchise than draft an offensive lineman who can’t play at least three.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2025
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Without these little guys and their fellow pollinators, our gardens would be devoid of fruit, our flowers would not spread, and many species that rely on them would cease to exist.—
Katie Akin,
Southern Living,
26 Apr. 2025
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This Wedding Banquet concludes with a scene of Angela, Lee, Min, and Chris jointly raising two children, the kid Angela had after a drunken fling with Chris and the one Lee had through the IVF that Min funded.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2025
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The events will conclude with the beginning of the Novemdiales, a symbolic and procedural period of nine days of prayer, mourning and remembrance.—
Gabriele Regalbuto,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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Some see Maine as a precursor to what California can expect: a Trump administration attempt to halt federal education funding.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2025
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But last week, the Trump administration ordered him to halt all the lab’s ALS research immediately as part of a more than $2.2 billion federal funding freeze.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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In 2024, his Idaho license temporarily lapsed, prompting questions about his status on the Central District Health board, the Sun previously reported.—
Kyle Pfannenstiel,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Apr. 2025
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Other contacts lapsed in late March, leaving the Seattle lab with zero janitorial staff and a skeleton crew of IT specialists.—
Ryan Whitwam,
ArsTechnica,
14 Apr. 2025
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The issue became a flashpoint for the Justice Department in March, when Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer refused to add Gibson to a pilot program that had whittled a list of 95 non-violent offenders down to nine who had passed rigorous FBI background checks.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA Today,
1 May 2025
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That newer version, passed last year, still leaves significant stretches of Miami Beach’s Atlantic shoreline, including some of its most prominent hotels of the 1940s and 1950s, vulnerable to demolition without city interference.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Elapse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elapse. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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