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lapse

[laps] / læps /






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Quinn and Daniels both took responsibility for the lapse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

The newly uncovered lapse took place in 2024 when a longtime researcher in the Fed’s international-finance division, who hasn’t been identified, was retiring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The summit’s most lamentable lapse was its failure to take even a small step toward putting guardrails on artificial intelligence.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

Sadly, the $2,000 payment the 82-year-old mother made to her neighbor for clearing her garage is symptomatic of a lapse in judgment about the basic concepts of money, value and reasonableness, compounded by emotion.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

My lapse in standing was the misfortune of being from the nouveau pauvre side of what passed for an elegant family there in the Pittsburgh of the South.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

The company through a settlement admitted to conspiracy to obstruct regulators’ operations but avoided more serious prosecution over safety lapses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

But the debate has shifted to safety in recent weeks, after security lapses sparked calls from some industry leaders for development of the technology to be slowed down.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

“I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle and regret the distraction this situation has caused the fans and my family,” the statement read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Aging often makes itself visible in familiar ways, from gray hair and wrinkles to lapses in memory.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

I’d had close friends go through devastating breakups, brought on by small problems left unattended or lapses in communication that led eventually to irreparable rifts.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

A previous planning application lodged with Leeds City Council which has since lapsed proposed the site could be repurposed into a hotel, restaurant and car park.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

But the CBP had said in a court filing this week that the pause had lapsed on September 30 and work would soon resume.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

But when they lapsed at the end of 2025, the average subsidized enrollee’s cost to keep the same plan jumped about 114%.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026

The life insurance company likely has no obligation to pay a lapsed policy.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Sirius lapsed into silence, still staring at the cave wall.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Washington Metro demonstrated how a public work can be both infrastructure and symbol without lapsing into overblown architectural propaganda.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

However, this protection comes with limited upside given that it does not eliminate the risk of either poor long-term performance or the policy lapsing.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 1, 2026

“Labyrinth” is fortified with trompe l’oeil wonders, but none are as powerful as a dream sequence resulting from Sarah lapsing into a hallucination after she bites into an enchanted peach.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

As a highly-touted five-star talent with NFL aspirations, he never made the switch to baseball either, his draft rights with the Dodgers lapsing after he transferred to Florida State for the 2024 football season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

“There’s a black man with brains gone to bed,” Malcolm X told me once, briefly lapsing into his old vernacular.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey


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