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lapse

[laps] / læps /






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Now there’s a new contender: Lapse, a photo app with the tagline “friends not followers.”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

As it braced for a potential shutdown, DHS issued a 46-page document titled “Procedures Relating to a Lapse in Appropriations.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2015

They put out an album of new material, “Momentary Lapse of Reason” and toured to support it.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2014

Yosemite Wildfire Time Lapse A massive conflagration has engulfed at least 192,000 acres of forest in Yosemite National Park over a period of less than two weeks.

From Newsweek • Aug. 30, 2013

A second examination revealed the fact that his stammering had progressed so rapidly since he had last talked with me, that it was now perilously near the stage known as Thought Lapse.

From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Bogue, Benjamin Nathaniel




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