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Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Jacob Coxon -- who resigned from Anthropic and previously worked at OpenAI -- publicly accused both startups of lax security standards and "gambling with our lives."

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

Pakistan has dealt with a number of major fires in recent years, often due to poor safety laws and building codes as well as lax enforcement.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

That is especially true for mortgages, which come with strict rules and are watched closely ever since corner-cutting and lax underwriting led to the 2008 financial crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

One day in A-block, however, I was assigned to run the gallery temporarily assigned to one of my classmates, Michaels, whom I knew to be particularly lax.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Supporters say the laxer regime could encourage more companies to go public; investors, hungry for data on corporate performance, oppose less-frequent reporting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

All three sets of illustrations are in a closely similar style—a style which, while possessing roots in Jain painting is now considerably laxer and more sprawling.

From The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry by W. G. Archer

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

Really good society, even in its laxest mood, would scarcely support quite so many.

From Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 by Various