elapses

verb

present tense third-person singular of elapse
as in expires
to come to an end in those coin-operated binoculars at scenic areas your viewing time seems to elapse almost before it has begun

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Recent Examples of elapses Under LeVota’s policies, the first set of tax credits would appear on residents’ bills in 2027, several months after his temporary term elapses. — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026 When that time elapses, items must be removed form the street. — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026 Longer payouts mean more time elapses between when a jeweler buys a customer’s antique necklace, and when that jeweler receives a check from a refiner. — Maliya Ellis, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026 This cycle elapses across thousands of years—glacially slow to us but almost instantaneous on cosmic scales. — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2026 How much time elapses between events, and what time something happens, depends on the observer’s frame of reference. — Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025 As the Universe expands, the expansion rate and energy density both do not change, leading to a relentless state where the Universe doubles in size, again and again, each time a certain interval elapses. — Big Think, 24 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elapses
  1. expires
  2. ceases
  3. ends
  4. stops
  5. halts
  6. concludes
  7. passes
Verb
  • The timeline calls for the Royals to move to the new stadium a year before the team’s lease at Kauffman Stadium expires.
    — Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Trump immediately signed an order for new 10 percent global tariffs for a limited time of 150 days that expires on July 24.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of expires
Verb
  • If the person holding key intellectual property or leading the company risks losing status, immigration planning ceases to be a personal ordeal.
    — Bernardo Saraiva, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
  • There is a point beyond which the scale of a threat or a danger ceases to scare us.
    — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026
Definition of ceases
Verb
  • The decision, for now, ends Grab’s first attempt to expand outside Southeast Asia.
    — Jay Ganglani, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
  • The loss of Flyte and Coe (Tom Brooke) earlier in the season leaves the Horses a little worse for wear, but Slow Horses has one parting blow for our semi-competent hero, River (Jack Lowden), before the season ends.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of ends
Verb
  • The New Braunfels, Texas, resident kept a frenetic touring schedule, headlining major Texas venues and mid-sized dance halls around the country, with occasional arena or amphitheater stops opening for Koe Wetzel thrown in.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Nighttime mouth breathing is associated with snoring, dry mouth, receding gums and sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing stops repeatedly during sleep.
    — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of stops
Verb
  • The court's decision halts the effort for now, leaving BARC open while the legal challenge continues.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • This natural inversion destroys leadership, fractures relationships and halts self-improvement.
    — Brendan Keegan, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of halts
Verb
  • Based on this, today’s report concludes that global climate pledges are falling short.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The tour concludes with dates in African cities including Lagos, Cape Town, and Johannesburg through January 2027.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of concludes
Verb
  • Even if October passes without another conflagration, November brings its own hazards.
    — Ali Vaez, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Equatic pumps seawater through an electrolyzer, where an electric current passes through a sandwich of plastic and metal plates and separates the water into two streams, one alkaline and one acidic, while also producing oxygen and hydrogen.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of passes

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“Elapses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elapses. Accessed 28 Oct. 2026.

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