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Over time, the free trade agreement has sometimes been used, not always of course, but sometimes as a way to access the U.S. market perhaps with laxity in some ways of rules of origin.
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Ankle ligament laxity does not inhibit running ability but could affect the ability to cut in the manner required of a running back.
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But the laxity and wit in much of this music masks a melancholy.
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Danes aren’t unusually careless about animal welfare, but there’s a tradition of pragmatism—or, a critic could say, an insular and self-congratulatory moral laxity—about animal death.
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First Known Use of laxity
1528
Medical Dictionary
laxity
playMedical Definition of laxity
laxities
: the quality or state of being loose a certain laxity of the bowels ligamentous laxity
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