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“Everything stops for a moment and brings you back to your home, which is your body. Being able to dive deep into that really takes you places — time lapses,” Galvan says.

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And then there is “faux pas,” which is an embarrassing blunder or lapse of good manners.

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This comes without the overhang from UniCredit, with which it has a key distribution deal in Italy that might not be renewed once it lapses in mid-2027.

The Palestinian foreign ministry went on to say, through the embassy, that it was working with South Africa to "address this situation resulting from this lapse".

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The picketing machinists benefited from a strike fund while they were off the job but were under increasing pressure as healthcare coverage lapsed for some families.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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