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
Burden’s family legacy was fractured by infidelity and a laissez faire attitude, at least in the public sphere, toward men behaving badly.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
There’s a certain live-and-let-live, laissez faire quality to eating like this.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024
That was the familiar pessimism which led in practical politics to laissez faire, and in speculation to Godwin's philosophic anarchism.
From Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle by Brailsford, Henry Noel
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