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Due to lax collagen between connective tissues, muscles have to work harder to keep joints stable, leading to fatigue and pain, as well as clumsiness.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

Fires in large buildings are frequent in Pakistan, often due to poor safety laws and building codes as well as lax enforcement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Beijing followed a deliberate playbook to build its dominance, combining subsidized energy and capital, cheap labor and lax environmental enforcement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

It’s their tension, their hair-trigger excitement and blocked adrenaline that fills the plane, despite the lax bodies of the passengers, their fatigue and resignation.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Supporters say the laxer regime could encourage more companies to go public; investors, hungry for data on corporate performance, oppose less-frequent reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

In fact, Florida, everywhere, has become a storage locker for juice from Brazil, where the land is cheaper, the regulations are laxer, and the chemicals are cheaper, too.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 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

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

Far away back in the dawn of University rowing training seems to have been far laxer, though discipline may have been more strict, than it is now.

From Rowing by Rudolf Chambers Lehmann

He called the licensing system "the laxest in Europe".

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2026

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 John Todhunter