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Recent Examples of laxity
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.
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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
Sure, losing estrogen can mean hyperpigmentation, laxity, dehydration, and sagging, but there are products already out there that target those concerns; they may just not be marketed as a treatment for menopausal skin.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 7 Jan. 2026
Key Ingredients: Microalgae, collagen amino acids, squalane Best For: Fine lines, wrinkles, skin laxity, dry skin
Size: 1 fl. oz.
—Emily Orofino, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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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
Sure, losing estrogen can mean hyperpigmentation, laxity, dehydration, and sagging, but there are products already out there that target those concerns; they may just not be marketed as a treatment for menopausal skin.
—Sophia Panych, Allure, 7 Jan. 2026
Key Ingredients: Microalgae, collagen amino acids, squalane Best For: Fine lines, wrinkles, skin laxity, dry skin
Size: 1 fl. oz.
—Emily Orofino, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for laxity
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Someone gets hurt, the cause points toward another person’s carelessness, and suddenly, the situation becomes legal instead of just painful.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
17 Feb. 2026
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Coach Sean Miller will focus on his team's carelessness with the ball at half; Texas has nine turnovers compared to two for Auburn.—
Thomas Jones,
Austin American Statesman,
28 Jan. 2026
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But perhaps no single moment better underscored the relative looseness of the camp than Corey Seager’s first at-bat of the spring.—
Evan Grant,
Dallas Morning News,
23 Feb. 2026
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Look at the looseness, the pre-coil of the body.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
15 Feb. 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 3 Mar. 2026.
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