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If losing your home and its contents — lest we forget about them — would cause you financial distress, don’t get rid of your home insurance.

From MarketWatch

He’s on track to complete that job, he said, and the President has every reason to let him, lest Iran quickly rebuild.

From The Wall Street Journal

At one point housewives were admonished not to shake their dust mops outdoors lest that contribute to smog.

From Los Angeles Times

Here Kaplan offended traditionalists by replacing the discursive Talmud passages, used in the past to relate the story of the Exodus, with a far more understandable retelling featuring the biblical story of Moses—a figure who had been purposefully and conspicuously absent from traditional Haggadah texts lest his presence overshadow God as the narrative’s hero.

From The Wall Street Journal

However, it’s important to remember how the regime came to be, lest we repeat the same errors.

From Los Angeles Times