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expire

verb as in breathe out

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The $300 weekly enhanced unemployment benefit replaces the $600 enhanced benefit that expired the week ending July 25.

From Fortune

He remembers watching birds expire in midair as they flew from one side of the plant to the other.

No one is getting that $600 payment right now, though, since it expired at the end of July and Congress is still deadlocked over whether to extend it.

America and Russia updated that treaty when it was to expire in 2009.

From Ozy

Expanded unemployment benefits keeping the economy turning over expire on July 31, one-time checks to families are long spent, and there is still no coordinated federal plan to test for the coronavirus.

From Quartz

Higher courts, including the Supreme Court had refused to intercede, and the stay was to expire tonight.

Last year, it let an unemployment extension for the long-term jobless expire during the holidays.

The temporary reduction of Social Security payroll taxes was allowed to expire in early 2013.

Those negotiations are set to expire at the end of November.

First, they let the stimulus boost expire, which that meant an average family of three receiving benefits lost $29 per month.

When a lease is about to expire a difficult question sometimes arises, what can the tenant take away with him?

He begged me to follow him: “I may die under the knife, and I should wish, in that case, to expire in your arms.”

The act which was passed at that time for imposing a tax upon income will shortly expire.

The conquered remain on the battlefield, nearly broken in two, and feebly waving their paws, till they slowly expire in agonies.

The colonists looked anxiously to 1764 when the odious act would expire by limitation.

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On this page you'll find 84 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to expire, such as: cease, close, conclude, depart, die, and finish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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