slackness

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Noun
  • Mothers fear that a lack of diapers could be taken as a sign of negligence and lead to children being removed from their custody.
    Laura Clawson, JSTOR Daily, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Staff and security at the Kaseya Center—a co-defendant accused of gross negligence—allegedly prevented the acquaintance from following the woman and McGregor into the bathroom (the Kaseya Center did not immediately respond to a request for comment).
    Ty Roush, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But one of the convicts used the slack security measures during rehearsals to plan a bank robbery, which ended up in the murder of two police officers, known as the infamous Malexander shootings of 1999.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Hansi Flick's men went 1-0 down in under two minutes at the Estadio da Luz with Vangelis Pavlidis capitalising on slack defending.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The average student Oakmont teaches has had multiple adverse childhood experiences, serious traumas ranging from abuse and neglect to seeing their parents incarcerated or die to family drug addiction or other forms of instability.
    Michael McShane, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • That dynamic, the news organization found, has resulted in fraud, abuse and neglect of the state’s most vulnerable.
    Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025
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