expend
Example Sentences
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Because I wasn’t expending any energy trying to reach for something.
From Los Angeles Times
But how many hours of BBC time will have to be expended to fight the case?
From BBC
"It became encouraging to expend more effort," Dr. Jachim says, "because we could tell it was a project that was going to succeed."
From Science Daily
Ms. Robbins challenges the reader to stop expending energy on controlling others and to focus on reclaiming our own peace and power.
More fundamentally, as AI handles routine cognitive work, the remaining human contribution shifts toward judgment, creativity and relationship management—the value of which bears little relationship to time expended.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
