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Lapsing
verb
Present participle of lapse
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You can see more details in our live blog, and have your say Here's what economists are saying: "Today's figures show continued very sluggish growth in the eurozone, but it has avoided lapsing back into recession.
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Gray, 25, died in hospital on 19 April, a week after lapsing into a coma from injuries sustained during his arrest and transportation in a police van.
Google's stock rose to a new pinnacle, valuing the search firm at $275 billion.The wrong browsersEurope's competition regulator slapped a €561m $$732m) fine on Microsoft for lapsing in its commitment to offer consumers a choice of internet browser.
And now my cab driver is in danger of lapsing into a hyperglycemic coma.
And just as the national party seems to be lapsing into fratricide, so a vicious internal war has broken out over the governorship.
Having desperately defended himself with every household implement to hand, he finally beats her into submission with a toilet lid, before lapsing into double entendre: "The first time I let a girl into my life and she tries to eat me".From a film-maker's point of view, the zombie has many advantages.
Throughout the 1950s this committee funnelled money towards individuals and organisations in Europe that were bringing the fledgling European Economic Community, forerunner of today's EU, into being.Like many of the EU's own founding fathers, Americans in the 1950s thought that European integration might prevent the continent lapsing back into war.
In a place with too much history and too much certainty, a "lonely rock in a stormy ocean", he manages to reach conclusions without lapsing into narrow judgments, and finds truth without asserting that it is the only truth.Inevitably, perhaps, his vision clouds slightly as he draws near to the present day.
Everywhere risks lapsing into bouts of chaos and strife.
Let's move on.Paul McKenney Ann Arbor, MichiganTouchéSIR – You criticised Timothy Garton Ash's editor for lapsing into "self-indulgence" because he allowed the use of the word "proleptic" twice within one book ("Mightier than the sword", August 22nd).
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