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lapse

[laps] / læps /






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When the photos are ready, several hours later, their takers can decide if they want to post them for their Lapse friends or archive them for private viewing.

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

Lapse of time, however, is not the chief cause of variation in the sense of words.

From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth




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