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lapsing - definition and meaning
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verb Present participle of lapse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun a failure to maintain a higher state
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Even more refreshing is the abolishing of 'lapsing ' of Bills.
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DELHI: On Monday, Rajya Sabha saw several MPs absenting themselves from the House resulting in their questions "lapsing " and led to CPM MP Brinda Karat protesting at MPs playing hooky as being "very
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Figure 5.1 summarizes the incidence of switching and lapsing among white Americans across major religious traditions.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
For that reason, in this chapter we often focus specifically on switching and lapsing among whites only.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
Most of the lapsing in Figure 5.1 represents real intergenerational change.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
• Catholics: Catholicism, as we have seen both in this chapter and in the previous one, suffered serious losses, both to conversion and to lapsing .
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
To be sure, even among Christians, some of those we are calling lapsed are themselves the children of lapsed parents, but lapsing that is, nonattendance has risen very sharply across the generations.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
At times, Addis stays too close to the surface, lapsing into self-help-speak.
Glenn C. Altschuler: Mars Bars Glenn C. Altschuler 2012
At times, Addis stays too close to the surface, lapsing into self-help-speak.
Glenn C. Altschuler: Mars Bars Glenn C. Altschuler 2012
The genius of it--and what keeps it from lapsing into complete anarchy--is that 140 character limit.
AlaskaDispatch.com: Reporting a Murder Trial, 140 Characters at a Time AlaskaDispatch.com 2011
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