laxity

Example Sentences

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Simple things like the way your body disperses fat, aging, or skin laxity can create asymmetry.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2026

“Constant squinting, reduced blinking and rubbing the eyes due to eyestrain can accelerate laxity and puffiness.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 1, 2026

Yet even that laxity proved too constraining for Saret, who chafed at being hemmed in, often to the point of self-sabotage.

From New York Times • May 29, 2024

As it turned out, of course, Lee’s stabbing death seems to have had nothing to do with street crime or prosecutorial laxity or coddled criminals or “repeat violent offenders.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2023

I think he couldn’t stand the laxity around us.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover