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Regarding Epstein's death in a New York prison, investigators concluded this was a result of "a series of institutional failures at the facility," which included staffing shortages, overworked employees, poor recordkeeping, and lax security practices.

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2026

But lax oversight of Medicaid providers isn’t endemic to New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Fires in large buildings are frequent in Pakistan, often due to poor safety laws and building codes as well as lax enforcement.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 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

King Hizdahr’s pit fighters were already growing bored and restive with their new duties, and bored men were lax, slow to react.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

In addition to flagging the Fed’s own shortcomings, that report pinned much of the blame on the bank’s executives and on a shift toward laxer regulatory policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The stuff was not unlike a terrestrial mushroom, only it was much laxer in texture, and, as one swallowed it, it warmed the throat.

From The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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