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What sets it apart from peers like vitamin C, however, is that retinol can tackle just about every sign of premature skin aging, including fine lines and wrinkles, skin laxity, and hyperpigmentation (a contributor to dark circles).
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Deanna Pai, Glamour, 28 May 2025
The impact of the drugs on the skin translates in several different ways beyond just laxity, which causes more prominent wrinkles and skin sagging.
—Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Related Articles Although losing a mass amount of weight, especially rapidly, often results in skin laxity, GLP-1 drugs cause an even greater impact, some experts say.
—Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
For me, my main concern was mild laxity in my lower face, some out-of-nowhere hollows under my eyes, and general dullness.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 3 May 2025
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Deanna Pai, Glamour, 28 May 2025
The impact of the drugs on the skin translates in several different ways beyond just laxity, which causes more prominent wrinkles and skin sagging.
—Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
Related Articles Although losing a mass amount of weight, especially rapidly, often results in skin laxity, GLP-1 drugs cause an even greater impact, some experts say.
—Emily Burns, Footwear News, 7 May 2025
For me, my main concern was mild laxity in my lower face, some out-of-nowhere hollows under my eyes, and general dullness.
—Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 3 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laxity
inadvertence
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As for inventions, accident and inadvertence played a role in the development of Post-it Notes and microwave heating.—
Amanda Foreman,
WSJ,
4 May 2018
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The history of the game proceeded through intelligence, but also through inadvertence.—
JAY CASPIAN KANG,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2017
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“Laxity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laxity. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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