as in defunct
no longer existing
a wildlife organization dedicated to ensuring that the giant panda not be added to the list of expired species
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as in ended
to come to an end
speakers will not be allowed to continue after their allotted time has expired
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as in exhaled
to let or force out of the lungs
he vows to hold on to that belief until he expires his last breath
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as in died
to stop living
made one last visit to his homeland and expired not long afterwards
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as in released
archaic
to throw or give off
linden trees expiring their rich perfume
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Recent Examples of expired
Ashley Wong, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Disputing the charge with your credit card company within 60 days under the Fair Credit Billing Act might have also worked, even with an expired card (issuers can often route refunds to new accounts).
—Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Among the most concerning consequences is the failure to extend Medicare telehealth flexibilities, which officially expired yesterday.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Always consult your doctor before taking an expired medication.
—Ashley Wong, Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Disputing the charge with your credit card company within 60 days under the Fair Credit Billing Act might have also worked, even with an expired card (issuers can often route refunds to new accounts).
—Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
Bao Li and Qing Bao, both three years old, joined the zoo in January after the previous panda tenants, Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and their cub, Xiao Qi Ji, returned to China when their lease expired in November 2023.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Among the most concerning consequences is the failure to extend Medicare telehealth flexibilities, which officially expired yesterday.
—Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expired
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The aviation themes of Air Afrique, which is named after the defunct Pan-African airline, are emphasized through Morse code on the outsole and a jacquard insole patterned after the seats on Air Afrique aircrafts.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The ability to remove a defunct rocket stage or satellite from orbit could also be used to target an adversary’s spacecraft.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
7 Oct. 2025
Verb
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In the quarter ended August, Oracle's Nvidia cloud business posted gross margins of just 14%, far below its overall margin of around 70%.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
8 Oct. 2025
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Fallon ended the chat by surprising the trio with the presentation of the platinum plaque for the movie’s soundtrack.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
8 Oct. 2025
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When Matthieu took his bow, Paris exhaled — not just in relief, but in recognition.—
Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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Voices gasped, exhaled for a beat, then rose up in screams of horror.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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The comments come more than nine months after her husband, Jeff Baena, died at 47.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
8 Oct. 2025
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Fellow comedy legend Carl Reiner, who played the wily Saul Bloom in all three Ocean's movies, died in June 2020 at age 98 from natural causes, leaving behind a career that netted him 11 Emmy Awards, a Grammy, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Oct. 2025
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The identities of the two boys and their cause of death were not immediately released, but foul play is not suspected, according to WFAA.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Oct. 2025
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Fans across the globe are now accusing her of using AI in her promotional videos, which were released in the form of a scavenger hunt on Google this weekend.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Types Of Chocolate Cosmos Until relatively recently, chocolate cosmos was thought to be extinct in the wild and the only available plants were produced through cuttings and root (tuber) divisions.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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In the Mendip Hills of southwestern England, a pine marten, considered locally extinct for over 100 years, was caught on a trail camera.—
Real-Time News team,
Miami Herald,
3 Oct. 2025
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The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, DC, closed its doors to the public on October 5, six days after the federal government ceased operations following the failure of Republicans and Democrats to agree on a spending bill.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
7 Oct. 2025
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But by this time, Leo, too, had ceased to be his sister’s confidant.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
7 Oct. 2025
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Pearson, expelled from the Tennessee House in 2023 after leading a gun control protest, was later reappointed and won a special election, cementing his status as a rising progressive voice.—
Beatrice Peterson,
ABC News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The elder Mamdani grew up in Uganda, in East Africa, in a community of Ugandans of Indian descent, known as the Bayindi, who played a prominent role in the country until Idi Amin expelled them en masse in 1972.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Expired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expired. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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