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The phrase "lapse back into" is correct and can be used in written English
It means to return to a previous state or behavior. Example: After weeks of healthy eating, she couldn't resist the delicious desserts at the party and lapsed back into her old habit of indulging in sweets.
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"I believe that we cannot afford Afghanistan to lapse back into a failed state".
He may lapse back into his Camus coma at any moment.
"We've had about 300 violence interrupters," Hardiman calculates, "and we've only had five guys lapse back into the lifestyle".
It would be a disaster were we to lapse back into the bad habits of old," said Tyrie.
Because with them in power, no one in Ukraine can be sure our country won't lapse back into dictatorship.
Still, each quarter that the economy does not lapse back into recession adds incrementally to consumer and business confidence, and perhaps eventually to growth.
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He only ever made a single convert – a tribal chief who lapsed back into polygamy.
Then he lapses back into his complaint about the administration's coddling of bondholders.
He had a momentary glimpse of blood and bodies, smoke and fire before lapsing back into unconsciousness.
Taylor was reprinted by the admirable Virago in the 1980s and 1990s, but has rather lapsed back into oblivion.
It did not go unnoticed by Robinson that players lapsed back into bad habits during the KSL.
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