laissez-faire
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“Martinez has this laissez faire, savoir-vivre à la française, a little bit leisure from the ’30s, from the golden days,” Cottray, 64, said.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
At the same time, the half-century long laissez faire regulatory environment of the U.S. is ending.
From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026
There’s a certain live-and-let-live, laissez faire quality to eating like this.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024
To understand how, I think it’s helpful to revisit the classic early American statement against laissez faire economics: Alexander Hamilton’s 1791 Report on the Subject of Manufactures.
From Slate • May 28, 2024
It was our policy of laissez faire, a weak Navy and an Army bound up with red tape, that caused this disastrous invasion of England.
From The Great War in England in 1897 by Le Queux, William
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