as in expires
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 elapses
When that time elapses, items must be removed form the street.
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Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
Longer payouts mean more time elapses between when a jeweler buys a customer’s antique necklace, and when that jeweler receives a check from a refiner.
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Maliya Ellis,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
This cycle elapses across thousands of years—glacially slow to us but almost instantaneous on cosmic scales.
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K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
How much time elapses between events, and what time something happens, depends on the observer’s frame of reference.
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Adrian Bardon,
The Conversation,
12 Nov. 2025
As the Universe expands, the expansion rate and energy density both do not change, leading to a relentless state where the Universe doubles in size, again and again, each time a certain interval elapses.
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Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
22 Feb. 2026
Longer payouts mean more time elapses between when a jeweler buys a customer’s antique necklace, and when that jeweler receives a check from a refiner.
—
Maliya Ellis,
Houston Chronicle,
1 Feb. 2026
This cycle elapses across thousands of years—glacially slow to us but almost instantaneous on cosmic scales.
—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
How much time elapses between events, and what time something happens, depends on the observer’s frame of reference.
—
Adrian Bardon,
The Conversation,
12 Nov. 2025
As the Universe expands, the expansion rate and energy density both do not change, leading to a relentless state where the Universe doubles in size, again and again, each time a certain interval elapses.
—
Big Think,
24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elapses
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The Newsom administration and California’s largest labor representative of state workers failed to reach an agreement on Tuesday to replace a contract that expires June 30, SEIU Local 1000’s chief negotiator said in an interview.
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Patients stay there for a few days to a week at a time, often until their involuntary commitment expires.
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This is not only devastating because Aang appears fatally injured, but because if an Avatar dies in the Avatar State, the entire cycle of Avatar reincarnation ceases and the earth’s balance is forever lost.
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What is surprising—indeed, almost shocking—is when a particular fashion ceases to change.
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Find your favorite before the deal ends, and check out more bedding from Bloomhaven below.
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After physical disk production ends, new games will be available exclusively in digital format from the PlayStation Store, an online shop for PlayStation games, and at retailers.
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Santorini stops being only a view and starts behaving like a place again.
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Workforce needs, customer expectations, and business conditions evolve, and leaders have to be willing to adjust if the model stops delivering results.
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The countywide legislation halts zoning and permitting processes for data centers and BESS sites in unincorporated areas of Jackson County for 180 days, which sponsor Sean Smith and other legislators have said will create time for the county to set more detailed permanent land use policies.
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But the publishing machine never quite halts, and the coming months do star a (smaller) collection of exciting new releases.
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Compiled by the Associated Press That concludes today’s newsletter.
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Downtown Sacramento was awash in Dodger blue as thousands of fans poured into the capital city for a three-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the A’s that concludes Wednesday.
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If your plants are looking wilted or their pots are drying out super-fast, consider temporarily moving them to a lightly shaded section of your patio or garden until the heat wave passes.
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Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky.
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