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Pakistan has dealt with a number of major fires in recent years, with poor safety laws, building codes and lax enforcement often blamed for steep death tolls.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Concerns about lax lending standards, rising defaults and a concentration of loans in the software sector had caused a flight of capital in recent months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Thailand's lax approach to health and safety regulations -- particularly in its bars and nightclubs -- has long raised concerns.

From Barron's ● Jul. 12, 2026

If employers are lax in their oversight, workers might find themselves overpaying to invest in funds that underperform.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

Her hand was lax in his and he worried that she would slip it away.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

Even within the laxer environment of immigration, where the rules of criminal detention don’t necessarily apply, there have long been additional limitations on the detention of children.

From Slate ● Jul. 31, 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

From the strict regularity of their lives the name was given to them, by those who were laxer in conduct, of “Methodists.”

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter

The move comes after an inquest into four deaths caused by drivers with failing eyesight saw a coroner call the UK's licensing system the "laxest in Europe".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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

Every man, even the laxest, if he is to continue to "count as one," must have a point where he draws the line beyond which he will not go.

From The Plum Tree by E. M. Ashe