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
Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
According to the dermatologist, using expired sunscreen can leave your skin vulnerable to sun damage and increase your risk of irritation or infection if the bottle has been contaminated.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2026
Kara McGrath, Allure, 22 Apr. 2026
The benefit, which expired in October 2025, was ultimately renewed for only one year.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
Local 99 on hold for even longer Members of Local 99 of Service Employees International Union have been working under terms of an expired contract since June 30, 2024.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
According to the dermatologist, using expired sunscreen can leave your skin vulnerable to sun damage and increase your risk of irritation or infection if the bottle has been contaminated.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Mar. 2026
Verb
Lush’s patent expired in 2008, so everyone else could hop on the solid train.
—Kara McGrath, Allure, 22 Apr. 2026
The benefit, which expired in October 2025, was ultimately renewed for only one year.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for expired
Adjective
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The charges came hours after the center's interim president and CEO Bryan Fair said in a video that the organization was being investigated by the Justice Department in connection with a now-defunct program that used paid confidential informants to infiltrate far-right groups.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
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By January 5, the team was back in Spain preparing for the Champions Cup in London, which ended on February 1.—
Melanie Anzidei,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Cobb police did not immediately comment on how the search for Damian Strozier, 31, ended.—
Vanessa McCray,
AJC.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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From his home in California wine country, Policy raised a glass to how the 1920 meetings in Canton must have looked as the founders lit cigars and exhaled ideas around Ralph Hay’s Hupmobiles.—
Steve Doerschuk,
USA Today,
15 Apr. 2026
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Wall Street looked at it, blinked, and slowly exhaled—leaving behind not a crater but a clearing, and for those paying attention, perhaps the most attractive technology entry point in more than a decade.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Another ballot was mailed in Maya’s name in October 2024, though the dog had recently died, prosecutors said.—
Andrew J. Campa,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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The man accused of carrying out a deadly string of seemingly random shootings in the Atlanta suburbs, including the killing of a Department of Homeland Security employee walking her dog, has died in jail before authorities could determine a motive.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
Verb
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The cause of Jaxon’s death has not been released.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
20 Apr. 2026
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The White House has released the names of only about half the members, and just one is Jewish.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Put another way, the physicist believes that in a little more than three decades, there is a 50 percent chance that our species will be extinct.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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The northern white rhino is also extinct in the wild.—
Heather Abbott,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
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To encompass the story, about a miracle from 847, when Pope Leo IV stopped a fire with a blessing, Raphael brings you into the fresco through the unshod feet of a woman in agony and leaves you near the very back, with a tiny and serene Leo IV.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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If the game stopped at this point, Fermat’s method for dividing the pot would list all possible outcomes of those five coin flips and then tally the ones that amassed 10 points for each player.—
Jack Murtagh,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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Only six House members have ever been expelled.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
21 Apr. 2026
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From there it was expelled into space, creating quite a spectacle.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Expired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expired. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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