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expired

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verb

past tense of expire
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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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Recent Examples of expired
Adjective
Players with expired contracts can sign with an expansion team during the window, but will not be eligible for selection in the expansion draft. Carol Schram, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025 Ting’s Filipino Bistro 10 critical violations in an April 29 routine inspection 405 Main St. An inspector discovered a bottle of expired cocktail sauce sitting on top of the water heater at the River Market restaurant. Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 11 May 2025
Verb
The closure order for the Line fire, which burned almost 44,000 acres in San Bernardino County, expired March 31. Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025 There had been noisy local resistance surrounding the case, but the protests expired from exhaustion soon after the Court’s decision came down, and integration, at least in the early grades, seemed to be a success. Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for expired
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expired
Adjective
  • Note: The Austin Critics Table, a now defunct arts journalism group, had agreed in 2019 that actor, director, playwright and journalist Robert Faires, absent from the voting that year, deserved to be inducted into the subsequent Hall of Fame class.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 13 July 2025
  • Executives from the now defunct watch brand wondered if the failure of the commercial was also due in part to the watch’s bezel not being properly featured.
    Seth Reiss, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
Verb
  • Herro ended the night with eight points on 3-of-11 shooting from the field, 0-of-1 shooting on threes and 2-of-2 shooting from the foul line, three rebounds, four assists and six turnovers in 39 minutes.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
  • While the Heat’s losing skid continued, another streak ended.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Nunn died in 2016 from leukemia at age 63.
    EW.com, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2025
  • An American Airlines employee has died following an accident on the tarmac in North Carolina.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Adidas made $437 million from the first batch of its Yeezy shoes released after severing ties with West, some of which benefited organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and a non-profit founded by George Floyd’s brother.
    Conor Murray, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • He was released from prison in October 2019.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Someone else wanted to make a list of every species that had ever gone extinct.
    Clare Sestanovich, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
  • Paleontologists have spent decades hotly debating why such magnificent beasts went extinct, the emerging picture involving a one-two punch of increasing human influence on the landscape and a warmer interglacial climate that began to change the world’s ecosystems.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Most importantly, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 1994 and ceased all political activities soon afterward.
    W. James Antle III, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The New York Giants’ high hopes for him last year quickly faded and completely ceased after the Giants lost in overtime to the Carolina Panthers in Germany — a game in which Jones only threw for 190 yards and was intercepted twice.
    Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • Oklahoma State expelled Hill, and the NFL banned him from its scouting combine.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • While there, Jesus visited the temple and enraged upon seeing money changers transacting business within its sacred walls, expelled them all.
    McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Homes and green spaces have been swallowed up by the HS2 building work, and trees — some of them hundreds of years old — have been felled.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 8 July 2025
  • Winds felled two large pine trees in her neighbors’ yards.
    Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025

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