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to lapsing

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A temporary failure; a slip.

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Expansively chatty, she's given to lapsing into artspeak, talking of "problematising" the band's image with their sleeve art.

The manager Sabri Lamouchi has tried to inject urgency to unhinge opponents and help those individuals flourish but they still seem prone to lapsing into lethargy or fear.

He is given, in conversation, to lapsing into the jargon of government and business; it remains to be seen what kind of strength or spirit he could bring as a candidate.

C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics here, said Mr. Greenspan and the Fed would be very sensitive to any signs that problems in the stock and bond markets might feed back into the broad economy, which has been slowing for a year and seems close to lapsing into recession.

Often without even realising it, we're all prone to lapsing into cliches when speaking and thinking quickly.

An old school friend of Merkel's, Hartmut Hohensee, compared it to lapsing into "a sort of paralysis, just hoping winter will pass and the flowers will begin to grow eventually".

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(Democrats allowed it to lapse in December).

Any temporary measures will eventually need to lapse, of course.

Mr. Howard's temptation is to lapse into cartoonish stereotyping.

See how easy it is to lapse into this vacuousness.

Mr. Schily urged his countrymen not "to lapse into panic".

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