lax
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Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Jacob Coxon -- who resigned from Anthropic and previously worked at OpenAI -- publicly accused both startups of lax security standards and "gambling with our lives."
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Due to lax collagen between connective tissues, muscles have to work harder to keep joints stable, leading to fatigue and pain, as well as clumsiness.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
That is especially true for mortgages, which come with strict rules and are watched closely ever since corner-cutting and lax underwriting led to the 2008 financial crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Across the country, suffrage opponents successfully—if unfairly—linked women’s rights with lax morals and sexual scandal.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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Supporters say the laxer regime could encourage more companies to go public; investors, hungry for data on corporate performance, oppose less-frequent reporting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
In fact, Florida, everywhere, has become a storage locker for juice from Brazil, where the land is cheaper, the regulations are laxer, and the chemicals are cheaper, too.
From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026
More than two decades ago the country experienced what author Helen Gordon described as a "Saharan gold rush", fuelled in part by laxer regulations and a more stable political environment than some of its neighbours.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025
And open-access publishers that charge authors to publish their work also have an incentive to publish as much as possible, which could lead to laxer quality control.
From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2024
The author is almost exclusively interested in the sect itself, in the division which had rent it, and in polemics against laxer interpretations of the law.
From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by George Foot Moore
The move comes after an inquest into four deaths caused by drivers with failing eyesight saw a coroner call the UK's licensing system the "laxest in Europe".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2025
But as a rapidly gentrifying city with some of the highest income inequality in the nation — and in a state with some of the laxest gun laws — gang culture has changed.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
Today California has some of the laxest rules on the subject in the country.
From Economist ● Dec. 8, 2016
While the rest of my physique is mediocre by the laxest standards, I started adulthood with an exemplary foot.
From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016
Her principles are abominable, and her morals are of the laxest; but many of her remarks are original, pungent, and entertaining.
From The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts by John Todhunter
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