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Thailand's lax approach to health and safety regulations -- particularly in its bars and nightclubs -- has long raised concerns.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Several months earlier, county auditors identified lax accounting procedures that resulted in LAHSA’s failure to pay its contractors on time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Coming out of the pandemic, such workers were easily landing jobs while raking in enviable six-figure salaries, generous perks and lax remote-work rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

Milagro itself was almost hidden in a lax bluish gauze of pinon smoke coming from all the fireplaces and cook stoves of its old adobe houses.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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

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

The autonomy of the Jewish communities, which had been curtailed by the later emperors, was now enlarged once more under the laxer political and legal conditions.

From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen

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

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