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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Macrina Wilkins, the association’s director of market insights, said this growth is at risk if Congress is unable to pass a new bill for highway and transit funding before the current federal highway and transit reauthorization law expires at the end of September.
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But the governor's authority in the matter can only last 90 days, and that expires on July 1.
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This essentially means that, for under-16s, Snapchat ceases to function as a social media app and becomes something closer to a sophisticated messaging platform just for friends and family.
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In the company of Charlie and Catherine, Leonora ceases to feel like herself.
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This pet bed deal is available until Prime Day ends on Friday, June 26.
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Denver International Airport’s A Line ends directly behind the hotel, after a roughly (okay, exactly) 37-minute airport transfer.
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Burke won the Stanley Cup as Anaheim’s general manager in 2007, one of several front-office stops for him, along with time spent as the NHL’s director of hockey operations.
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The nose stops registering any single note and the room just smells busy.
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The findings indicate that bird-watching and similar hobbies may support overall brain health, though researchers stop short of saying the activity definitively halts cognitive decline.
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The findings do not definitively prove that birding halts cognitive decline, but the evidence is promising.
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The chapter concludes with the Ipnotica rings and earrings, whose rounded, asymmetrical forms are set with white and brown diamonds to create a sculptural bas-relief effect.
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The celebration concludes with the city’s annual fireworks show at the Placer County Fairgrounds.
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Then this private driveway passes fruit trees, a vineyard, and mature plantings, before finally reaching the impressive colonial that is at the heart of this nearly four-acre country estate at 46 Andrews Road in Wolcott.
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While there are no rideshare services available in Cannon Beach, there is a NW Connector bus route that runs multiple stops in town, with three-day passes available for $25 or seven-day passes for $30.
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