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as in spending
to hand over or use up in payment
redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house
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as in consuming
to make complete use of
settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter
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Recent Examples of expending
Noise from loud ‘information laden’ conversations and music, task interruptions, alerts from social media applications, email, Teams calls, visual distractions all of which break your concentration and require you to re-focus expending un-necessary cognitive energy.
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Andrew Mawson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Drawing on decades of lessons learned from previous space missions, this technique involves the use of atmospheric drag over the course of multiple passes to change orbits while expending minimal fuel.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Men at the farmhouse responded by blasting away with guns, expending boxes of ammunition to no effect.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Andrew Mawson, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Drawing on decades of lessons learned from previous space missions, this technique involves the use of atmospheric drag over the course of multiple passes to change orbits while expending minimal fuel.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Men at the farmhouse responded by blasting away with guns, expending boxes of ammunition to no effect.
—Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expending
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To help ensure a safe, successful workout, Suazo recommends spending five minutes preparing your body.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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The recall effort was significantly bolstered by Democracy in Action, a political action group which collected about half of the necessary signatures, spending more than $30,000 in the process.—
Ilana Arougheti,
Kansas City Star,
27 Sep. 2025
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Fans are already consuming an increasing number of clips captured on other viewers’ phones, offering unique angles of game-changing plays or gnarly injuries mixed with the fan reactions that make those moments so compelling.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Brigadier General Edwin Urrego, commander of the Metropolitan Police, initially told local outlets that seven people had been found dead as a result of consuming the tainted liquor.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
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Companies are used to paying between $2,000 and $5,000 per visa application.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
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Plus, paying $150M to three guys?—
Jon Machota,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Many merchants still repeat the same edits across several dashboards, draining time and creating avoidable errors.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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The work is physically demanding and emotionally draining.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Sep. 2025
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Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, and Carlos Alcaraz skipped the event in Canada after exhausting schedules.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The second stage was able to regain attitude control and managed to climb to a peak altitude of 198 miles (320 kilometers) before exhausting its fuel.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Researchers revealed that to produce solar fuels such as green hydrogen, the light-absorbing molecules must transfer an electrical charge to an acceptor molecule.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
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The pink helmets, sold in size small, do not comply with standards for absorbing impacts and stability when worn, nor with labeling and certification requirements.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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Making the swap can save you from packing three extra shoes in your bag, reducing your luggage weight considerably.—
Kelsey Glennon,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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Since 2000, investments in reducing malaria have prevented more than 2 billion cases and nearly 13 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, but recent foreign aid cuts are putting programs to control and eliminate the disease at risk.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.—
Scott Feinberg,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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As a sign of the effort’s feasibility, the statement points to similar international resolutions that established red lines in other dangerous arenas, like prohibitions on biological weapons or ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Expending.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expending. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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