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Recent Examples of laxity
Images of bloody bulls and butchered whales—portrayed as victims of the European Union’s moral laxity—were used to make the case for Brexit.
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Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
Yet what scans as authorial laxity here is elsewhere integral to the novel’s charm.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Throughout the year, her focus is on strengthening the skin barrier, balancing, and treating specific concerns like pigmentation, acne, or laxity through a combination of clinical treatments and precise at-home routines.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Typically, patients with less skin laxity, ages 30 or younger, are recommended for two Xerf treatments per year, each three to four months apart.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026
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Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
Yet what scans as authorial laxity here is elsewhere integral to the novel’s charm.
—Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Throughout the year, her focus is on strengthening the skin barrier, balancing, and treating specific concerns like pigmentation, acne, or laxity through a combination of clinical treatments and precise at-home routines.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Typically, patients with less skin laxity, ages 30 or younger, are recommended for two Xerf treatments per year, each three to four months apart.
—Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 16 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laxity
Noun
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Still, being private isn’t a license to let laxness creep in.—
Phil Wahba,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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The officials’ performance reflected carelessness in the process.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
30 Mar. 2026
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Kerry Doyle, the former top ICE attorney during the Biden administration, said Mazzara’s comments show a shocking carelessness about the potential for harm against both the general public and the officers he was employed to protect.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Mar. 2026
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When Alexis de Tocqueville, the French political philosopher and statesman, visited America and published his 1835–1840 classic Democracy in America, he was surprised by the adaptive, intentional looseness of the laws written during the first century of the United States.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
6 Apr. 2026
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At least the looseness of discomfort was made tangible now, defined by both taste and texture.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
1 Apr. 2026
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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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Again, what is lost is inadvertency and the element of surprise — the sense that the power of the image is independent of the photographer’s plans.—
TEJU COLE,
New York Times,
18 Oct. 2016
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The heedlessness of the children has touched her mood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Laxity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laxity. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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