laissez-faire
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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
So if you think about the crumbling of the laissez faire paradigm in the 1920s and the wake of World War I and the Great Depression, it wasn’t clear what would supersede.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023
Toomey, an advocate of laissez faire economic policies, has praised the innovative technology.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2021
In a sense we, the laissez faire generation, have been unavoidably surprised—so much so that our “proud punctilio” has been jogged considerably loose.
From The Invisible Censor by Hackett, Francis
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