expires

present tense third-person singular of expire
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as in exhales
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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Recent Examples of expires The key to making a 0% intro APR offer work for you is planning to pay it off before the intro APR expires. — Jason Stauffer, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026 Board Chair Laura Blackwell Lindsey, whose term expires in 2028, is the only current commissioner who will neither face voters nor leave office this year. — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026 The extension would give the developer until October 2028 before the project’s design review approval expires. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Sep. 2026 There has been speculation his goal is to have international expansion by the time his contract expires. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The current contract, which guarantees state employees access to a pension and retirement healthcare once service requirements have been reached, expires June 30. — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 But the proposals haven’t advanced through the committee process and seem unlikely to pass before the current legislative term expires at the end of the year. — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2026 The Moffat County Sheriff's Office has removed all of the Flock Safety cameras from the county ahead of the contract that expires at the end of the year. — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026 Then a supplier’s API certificate expires overnight, a core system loses its data feed and the business stops for half a day. — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expires
Verb
  • Dive will follow an elite team of police divers and investigators who solve crimes that begin where the surface ends.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Woods ends his comeback season with a dominant victory at the Tour Championship.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • By the time the family reconvenes at the house, the room exhales.
    — JP Mangalindan, Time, 31 July 2026
  • Your home is supposed to be the place where your nervous system finally exhales.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Making people’s lives better does not mean having a symbolic vote on something that goes to the Senate and dies — that’s what the Republicans have done for two years.
    — Mathew Miranda, Sacbee.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Using the X-ray spacecraft XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission), astronomers have observed stellar winds from a hypergiant star feeding an extreme stellar remnant known as a neutron star, left over after a massive star dies.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Or, for that matter, whether the grandfather of the Reality-Vigilante-TV Industrial Complex ever felt the level of fear and self-loathing that radiates off Pattinson’s human-flop-sweat of a portrayal.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Keep in mind that heat still radiates from the bulb, so the lamp should sit on a stable surface away from paper, fabric or anything else that could scorch.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • The audience ceases to be a destination for your voice and becomes the structure that shapes it.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • But ultimately, for Liu, the initial concept ceases to matter; the act of constructing the image itself becomes more important than the starting point.
    — Lavender Au, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Because every moment is narrated in Ugandan Sign Language and International Sign, Deaf travelers are more deeply immersed in the experience, and a welcome hush falls over the environment—which is, surprise, appreciated by the wildlife too.
    — CNT Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Sep. 2026
  • However, the salt can solidify if its temperature falls too close to its freezing point.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • For now, India's strategy appears to be building its own dam in Arunachal Pradesh in case China releases — perhaps deliberately — enormous quantities of water, as Chief Minister Khandu suggested in June last year to the outlet, Press Trust of India.
    — Mamita Bhandari, NPR, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Burning fossil fuels releases pollutants that form fine particles and ground-level ozone, increasing risks of heart and lung disease and premature death.
    — Akshaya Jha, The Conversation, 22 Sep. 2026
Verb
  • Trusted by professional barbers, Green Stix stops shaving nicks and minor cuts in seconds.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026
  • But when a generation stops believing that an unjust rule has legitimacy, coercion becomes increasingly expensive.
    — Pegah Banihashemi, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Expires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expires. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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