lapse

The Escape Artist: In many of these recent cases, the models were given access to the internet, a surprising lapse from the testers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

The three-month lapse in data is the longest delay seen in years, said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

Last fall’s record-long government shutdown prevented it from publishing any inflation statistics at all in October, an unprecedented lapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Bouchier wafted unnecessarily outside the off stump, Heather Knight played around a straight one from Sayali Satghare for six and Jones suffered a lapse in concentration to prod spinner Sneh Rana to short leg.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

“What, you need three hours?” said Ron, looking at her incredulously and paying for his lapse in concentration when a large snowball, thrown by George, hit him hard on the side of the head.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

His defence advocate, Thomas Ross KC, said Brown been affected by mental health issues since he was a young, but had not helped himself by "lapses" in taking medication.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The film frames their lapses in rigor as the joys of being a teenager, rather than imperfections — or worse, weakness in the pursuit of glory.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026

If there is a mortgage, lenders generally require insurance to remain active and may impose costly force-placed insurance if coverage lapses.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

There were clearly major security lapses that allowed unscreened people to get really close to a lot of VIPs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

He had a habit of attributing all of Bunny’s faults indirectly to her—his laziness, his bad humors, his lapses of taste.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 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

Unless there was an error by the insurer, a lapsed policy has no death benefit.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

When 702 faced a similar deadline in April 2024, two major communications providers said they would cease turning over the data if it lapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

It was as if, between them, an old intimacy had quite suddenly lapsed.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But Mr. Blaževičius depicts with a deadpan ruthlessness the pull of complacency, the ease of lapsing back into lives full of compromise and myopia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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

“Labyrinth” is fortified with trompe l’oeil wonders, but none are as powerful as a dream sequence resulting from Sarah lapsing into a hallucination after she bites into an enchanted peach.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 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

“Yes’m,” he said, lapsing back into lazy English.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper