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View definitions for lapse

lapse

noun as in break in action

noun as in backsliding

verb as in become void; fall back into previous pattern

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Example Sentences

His memory lapse hasn’t made folks meaner — it’s just made Paul unaccustomed to the hassle.

An accomplished journalist for a New Yorker-style publication with a specialty in culture and race, he’s a lapsed Muslim, unattached and mourning his late father but soldiering on.

Stage two dementia is an early phase of the syndrome in which people exhibit very mild cognitive decline, possibly including some memory lapses.

From BBC

We scored a brilliant first try and then had a lapse of concentration and Italy score back.

From BBC

Any lapse or reduction in funding for life-saving HIV programs will not only threaten this progress but have negative economic impacts throughout the country.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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