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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

If employers are lax in their oversight, workers might find themselves overpaying to invest in funds that underperform.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

The bombing of LaGuardia came at a time when airport security was, from today’s vantage, unimaginably lax.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

For years, Kenyan artists have been frustrated by a lax royalties system in the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Selitos knew that in all the world there were only three people who could match his skill in names: Aleph, lax, and Lyra.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

Coinbase and other firms have argued that the U.S. should be friendlier to the industry and that clearer rules are necessary to help American crypto companies compete with exchanges in countries with laxer regulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

While Western scientists have reported the primate are not mistreated, there is no denying the regulatory and ethical frameworks are far laxer.

From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2021

Far from it; there is a stricter party as well as a laxer party among Catholics, there is a laxer party as well as a stricter party among Protestants.

From Apologia pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry

He labelled the licensing system as the "laxest in Europe" as he pointed out the UK was one of only three countries to rely upon self-reporting of visual conditions affecting the ability to drive.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 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 Todhunter, John