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lapse

[laps] / læps /






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Quinn and Daniels both took responsibility for the lapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The newly uncovered lapse took place in 2024 when a longtime researcher in the Fed’s international-finance division, who hasn’t been identified, was retiring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The summit’s most lamentable lapse was its failure to take even a small step toward putting guardrails on artificial intelligence.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sadly, the $2,000 payment the 82-year-old mother made to her neighbor for clearing her garage is symptomatic of a lapse in judgment about the basic concepts of money, value and reasonableness, compounded by emotion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

My lapse in standing was the misfortune of being from the nouveau pauvre side of what passed for an elegant family there in the Pittsburgh of the South.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

Mr. Barofsky accused Mr. Fain of scapegoating and retaliating against the secretary-treasurer for the apparent financial lapses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

These analyses aim to gauge the capabilities of autonomous AI tools, as their lapses fuel fears of losing control over the technology.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Those concerns ranged from a poor disciplinary record and difficulties defending set-pieces to lapses in concentration, inconsistent finishing and, ultimately, inconsistent results.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Once she lapses into talking about Constantine without my even asking.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

But the CBP had said in a court filing this week that the pause had lapsed on September 30 and work would soon resume.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

He was later given a four-year ban, which lapsed in July this year.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

The SK affiliate managing the company headquarters accused Roh’s art center of illegally occupying the space in 2023, citing a lapsed rental contract.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

But when they lapsed at the end of 2025, the average subsidized enrollee’s cost to keep the same plan jumped about 114%.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

That afternoon lapsed in peace and harmony; and in the evening Bessie told me some of her most enchanting stories, and sang me some of her sweetest songs.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Washington Metro demonstrated how a public work can be both infrastructure and symbol without lapsing into overblown architectural propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

However, this protection comes with limited upside given that it does not eliminate the risk of either poor long-term performance or the policy lapsing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

But a failure to address the lapsing credits is expected to result in sticker shock across the state and the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025

The release comes after the expiration of the 2018 Farm Bill extension on Sept. 30, 2023, leaving many programs under the bill vulnerable to lapsing as the year-end deadline approaches.

From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2024

They all mourned Rocky that way, by slipping, lapsing into the plans he had for college and for his football career.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko




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