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slackness



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But the flaws in “The Californians” reflect ambition and overexertion, not slackness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

With sheer determination, he established that a man in his 40s didn’t have to suffer arm slackness and that with pure application he could learn any system.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022

But they were undone by slackness at the back and ultimately a nightmare two-minute spell turned the game on its head.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2021

Chief among these are the dough’s slackness and its propensity to spread into a pancake-like loaf, baking up flat and dense, if even lightly mishandled.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2021

I’ve got to try to resist this slackness.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes


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