elapses

present tense third-person singular of elapse

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Recent Examples of elapses In inflation, the Universe expands rapidly and relentlessly, doubling in size in all three dimensions with each tiny fraction-of-a-second that elapses, and then doubling and doubling again each time that same tiny fraction-of-a-second goes by. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elapses
Verb
  • Snag one for $14 before the overstock deal expires.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The offer for the Google AI for Education Accelerator expires October 6.
    Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Without any of the three, money once again ceases to circulate.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Some of the details may subtly shift between each retelling, but the story always remains the same and never ceases to grab attention.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Sources said Bessent is waiting to interview current Fed members until after the blackout period surrounding next week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting ends.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The Atlanta Braves have a difficult decision to make with manager Brian Snitker once the season ends.
    Drew VonScio, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When policy, innovation, and business insight align, CCU stops being a piece of green rhetoric and becomes good business.
    Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The buck stops with the humans.
    Big Think, Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Antihydra almost certainly never halts.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
  • More than 50 Democratic lawmakers fled the state earlier this week, a decision that halts action on redistricting, as well as other bills in the legislature.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Whether the Yankees are willing to make that type of commitment to a player who will be 37 years old by the time the contract extension concludes will be perhaps the most critical question for the legendary franchise in the coming offseason.
    Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The dramatic decline in insect populations captured in the study underscores both the global scale of the biodiversity crisis and the pressing need for comprehensive monitoring and conservation efforts, a press release concludes.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • So, to observe them, astronomers rely on stellar occultations — moments when an object passes between them and a background star.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The entrance to the car park even passes under a portcullis and guests’ bags go through an X-ray machine hidden in the rock-face.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Elapses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elapses. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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