as in consumed
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as in spent
to hand over or use up in payment
redecoration will have to wait, since we've just expended our last dollar in buying the house
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as in exhausted
to make complete use of
settlers had to be sure not to expend their supply of firewood before the end of the long winter
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Recent Examples of expended
Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
All three boosters were expended, so no sonic boom landings.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
Society as a whole ends up worse off, with fewer goods and services to meet human needs produced from the same level of resources expended.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
Brown's Senate colleagues have expended significant effort to support his reelection campaign.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The balance between calories consumed and calories expended can influence body weight.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
The same research highlights that these investments also include intangible resources—time, effort and emotional energy that are expended purely for the sake of the other person, or for the relationship itself.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Hezbollah has also expended thousands of Hezbollah projectiles that Israeli air defenses have mostly swatted out of the sky.
—Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
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Moscow expended significant financial and political capital to keep Assad in power during the Syrian Civil War but its latest chapter in which rebel groups led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham seized Damascus has dealt a blow to Russia's geopolitical influence.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
All three boosters were expended, so no sonic boom landings.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
One of those blew up on its landing attempt while another was purposefully expended to get its payload to a higher orbital insertion.
—Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Dec. 2024
Society as a whole ends up worse off, with fewer goods and services to meet human needs produced from the same level of resources expended.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2024
Brown's Senate colleagues have expended significant effort to support his reelection campaign.
—Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2024
The balance between calories consumed and calories expended can influence body weight.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Rdn, Ld, Health, 15 Oct. 2024
The same research highlights that these investments also include intangible resources—time, effort and emotional energy that are expended purely for the sake of the other person, or for the relationship itself.
—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
Hezbollah has also expended thousands of Hezbollah projectiles that Israeli air defenses have mostly swatted out of the sky.
—Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for expended
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Amos Heller has spent more than 15 years sharing a stage with Taylor Swift as a member of her band, the Agency.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 11 Dec. 2024
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Its main incentive rate will now be 25% of the eligible costs spent on a production, up from the previous 20%.Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
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In an alert to health-care providers last week, the California Department of Health said doctors should consider bird flu in people with acute respiratory symptoms or conjunctivitis who’ve had recent exposure to animals with bird flu or who have recently consumed raw dairy products.Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous.David Pierce, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
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Their Instagram account is helpful in growing awareness for both the free and paid opportunities.Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 11 Dec. 2024
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Four days after McMahon’s big gift, America First Action Fund paid $500,000 to Madison Square Garden.Zach Everson, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
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In that way, McDonald’s became a kind of scapegoat for people who were exhausted of stretching their budgets to afford food and suspecting (not without reason) that corporate greed was at least partly to blame.Allison Morrow, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
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Because the Syrian army is exhausted and no longer has the courage to fight alone.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Expended.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expended. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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