elapsing

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The back-to-back turnovers dropped the Bengals win probability from 83.8% to 8.2% with only seconds of game time elapsing, according to the NFL’s modeling.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

With years often elapsing between the incident and inquest, Alexander said inquests often open wounds and “re-traumatize” the families.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023

But he says that this was impossible because the allotted six months began elapsing as soon as the estate was put up for sale.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2023

Next year, though, that policy is elapsing, and at his age, Natiello's insurance premiums would spike if he decided to extend coverage.

From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2023

The whole period of time elapsing between the chute of the last story from the city room and the delivery of the printed pages to the newsboys will not have exceeded ten minutes.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)