expiration
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Douglass therefore saw not simply 20 years of protection but a constitutional expiration date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Federal officials also ordered California’s Department of Motor Vehicles to cancel about 13,000 licenses due to a clerical error that allowed them to remain valid past a work permit’s expiration date.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The expiration of the security aid for the Peshmerga would come less than one year after the US opened its largest consulate in the world, in Irbil.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
For a fixed-term lease, the tenancy ends on the lease’s stated expiration date, but the landlord may still need to give the appropriate advance notice if they decide not to renew the lease.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
We were always acutely aware of our fast-approaching expiration date, and we spent as much time together as we could.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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That means Merck, the maker of Keytruda, and Bristol Myers Squibb, who produces Opdivo, each have more than 65% of last year’s sales exposed because of these patent expirations along with others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
Bristol-Myers Squibb is staring down immediate patent expirations on such core revenue drivers as the cancer blockbuster Opdivo and the blood thinner Eliquis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
One of the issues that could possibly threaten the bank’s bullish thesis is the “patent cliff” approaching in 2028, where a number of major drugs are facing patent expirations.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Because we are creating synthetic stock—trader jargon for using options to mimic actual shares—let’s use expirations of six months and longer to simulate equity ownership.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
They gradually lengthen the intervals between their inspirations and expirations, until, in three or four months, they succeed in making them an hour and a half.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing expiration
"The Latehomecomer," Vocabulary from the memoir excerpt
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Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
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"The Latehomecomer" by Kao Kalia Yang
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