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But lax oversight of Medicaid providers isn’t endemic to New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

These higher returns helped fuel an arms race among endowments to make college campuses look like large, pristine country clubs with lax dress codes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

Pakistan has dealt with a number of major fires in recent years, with poor safety laws, building codes and lax enforcement often blamed for steep death tolls.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Thula exploded in the face of what she saw as lax discipline.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

In addition to flagging the Fed’s own shortcomings, that report pinned much of the blame on the bank’s executives and on a shift toward laxer regulatory policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 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

Even within the laxer environment of immigration, where the rules of criminal detention don’t necessarily apply, there have long been additional limitations on the detention of children.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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

Thus the nave, where men were ever coming and going, walking and talking, and in laxer times buying and selling as well, was quite shut off from the more sacred places.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer

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

Every man, even the laxest, if he is to continue to "count as one," must have a point where he draws the line beyond which he will not go.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe