ELAPSED Synonyms: 50 Similar and Opposite Words

elapsed

verb

past tense of elapse

as in expired

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 elapsed Twenty-five minutes had elapsed before the hosts managed to even touch the ball inside the Southampton penalty area, never mind threaten Daniel Peretz’s goal. —

Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Eleven other people submitted forms pursuant to the FTCA, but their six-month waiting period before being able to file suit against the federal government has not elapsed yet. —

Max Rego, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2026 In addition to live video, viewers can track the spacecraft using NASA’s Artemis Real‑time Orbit Website, which displays Orion’s position relative to Earth and the moon, its distance traveled, and elapsed mission time using live data transmitted from Orion to Mission Control in Houston. —

Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026 Then not even two months had elapsed before the United States launched joint airstrikes with Israel on Iran on February 28, which resulted in the assassination of its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and launched the ongoing war in the Middle East. —

Emile Nuh, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026 After around a trillion years, total, have elapsed since the hot Big Bang, there won’t really be any galaxies left to view other than Milkdromeda, and the star-formation rate may be effectively zero, save for the rare merger of brown dwarfs that then cross the mass threshold to become stars. —

Big Think, 13 Mar. 2026 Between that chance meeting and my birth in a Manhattan hospital in 1993, 15 years elapsed. —

Phineas Rueckert, Longreads, 3 Mar. 2026 The expired contract’s holdover language would have elapsed on March 31. —

Chase Rogers, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026 Sky is moving beyond its previous HBO output deal, which just elapsed. —

Max Goldbart, Deadline, 11 Feb. 2026

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Any Section 702 targets under surveillance at the time Section 702 expired could still be collected against for a year.

— Patrick Eddington, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
In 1890, Strauss and Davis’ patent on the use of rivets to reinforce clothing had expired, and all denim brands were allowed to produce their own versions.

— Jack Armstrong, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026