expire
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President Donald Trump announced that he would extend the ceasefire with Iran, set to expire on Wednesday evening, to allow the regime more time to create a "unified proposal" to end the war.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The two-week cease-fire was due to expire tomorrow evening, Washington time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
The initial two-week ceasefire had been due to expire on Wednesday evening Washington time.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Trump said Sunday that a U.S. delegation will return to Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday for talks on extending the two-week-long cease-fire, which is set to expire this week.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 19, 2026
Jefferson had also shared with Madison his intriguingly utopian suggestion that each generation was sovereign, so that the laws made for one generation should expire after about twenty years.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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