The word laxity has appeared 11 times on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 10 in The New York Times Magazine article “He Made a Daring Escape From China. Then His Real Troubles Began” by Nyrola Elimä and Ben Mauk. The article is about Hasan Imam, a refugee convicted of entering Thailand illegally in 2014:
Around a month after Imam’s capture, Thailand’s government was overthrown by a military junta. Among the new government’s stated goals was putting an end to the laxity and corruption that had permitted trafficking to flourish under the old administration.
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