laissez-faire
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The private-college sector didn’t rise in a laissez-faire market.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
The proliferation of offshore vehicles, combined with a laissez-faire attitude toward sources of foreign wealth, have made it an attractive place for well-to-do Iranians to park cash, real-estate experts and wealth managers say.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
It’s a get-in-where-you-fit-in or get-edged-all-the-way-out kind of city, wherein a deceptively laissez-faire game of musical chairs can determine your fate.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Trading volume on prediction markets has soared and upended the gambling industry under the laissez-faire status quo.
From Barron's • Nov. 19, 2025
Appealing though this laissez-faire undoubtedly was, especially for amateur musicians, it resulted in instrumental music that did not make great demands on players, their instruments, or indeed composers.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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