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Recent Examples of laxity
Below, a top plastic surgeon, dermatologists, and estheticians weigh in on their favorite at-home peptide eye creams for dark circles, fine lines, wrinkles, puffiness, laxity, and more.
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Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
22 Apr. 2026
Younger patients without laxity may not require surgical intervention.
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Lara Devgan,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2026
Trying to undo a Brazilian butt lift (or BBL) by sucking it out of the body carries the risk for nerve damage, asymmetry, and skin laxity.
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Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
Yet what scans as authorial laxity here is elsewhere integral to the novel’s charm.
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Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
22 Apr. 2026
Younger patients without laxity may not require surgical intervention.
—
Lara Devgan,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2026
Trying to undo a Brazilian butt lift (or BBL) by sucking it out of the body carries the risk for nerve damage, asymmetry, and skin laxity.
—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
Yet what scans as authorial laxity here is elsewhere integral to the novel’s charm.
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Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laxity
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Still, being private isn’t a license to let laxness creep in.
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Once, administrators confronted him about the carelessness of his grading.
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That's not chance or carelessness.
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Their shows are driven by a physicality both intricately choreographed and fizzily chaotic, tightness and looseness alternating — even somehow overlapping — in a rolling series of lazzi and dances, fistfights and slapstick routines.
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Cobbled together as a mixtape from a collection of leaks—allegedly because Veeze was holding onto a payload of Carti tracks—the tape hums along with a looseness that could only come from not being edited to death.
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As for inventions, accident and inadvertence played a role in the development of Post-it Notes and microwave heating.
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The history of the game proceeded through intelligence, but also through inadvertence.
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The heedlessness of the children has touched her mood.
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“Laxity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/laxity. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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