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Security at the bankrupt development was lax but oversight has since been improved, Petty said, with round-the-clock security guards, cameras, laser devices and tall metal walls topped with razor wire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026

The bombing of LaGuardia came at a time when airport security was, from today’s vantage, unimaginably lax.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

Coming out of the pandemic, such workers were easily landing jobs while raking in enviable six-figure salaries, generous perks and lax remote-work rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

"Inadequate basic safeguards, including poor management of authentication signing keys and lax access controls" caused the personal data of around 37.5 million users to be exposed, the commission said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Some of them were too lax, some too brittle, some careless, some too firm, some inconsistent.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

In fact, Florida, everywhere, has become a storage locker for juice from Brazil, where the land is cheaper, the regulations laxer, and the chemicals are cheaper, too.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

More than two decades ago the country experienced what author Helen Gordon described as a "Saharan gold rush", fuelled in part by laxer regulations and a more stable political environment than some of its neighbours.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

And open-access publishers that charge authors to publish their work also have an incentive to publish as much as possible, which could lead to laxer quality control.

From Science Magazine ● May 31, 2024

Coinbase and other firms have argued that the U.S. should be friendlier to the industry and that clearer rules are necessary to help American crypto companies compete with exchanges in countries with laxer regulations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

Discipline was laxer in German convents than in those of England.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

He labelled the licensing system as the "laxest in Europe" as he pointed out the UK was one of only three countries to rely upon self-reporting of visual conditions affecting the ability to drive.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2025

But as a rapidly gentrifying city with some of the highest income inequality in the nation — and in a state with some of the laxest gun laws — gang culture has changed.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

Today California has some of the laxest rules on the subject in the country.

From Economist ● Dec. 8, 2016

While the rest of my physique is mediocre by the laxest standards, I started adulthood with an exemplary foot.

From The New Yorker ● May 16, 2016

The African schism insisted on the laxest possible line of action, namely, to receive indiscriminately without proof of penitence.

From Confession and Absolution by Capel, Thomas John