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In natural English speech, "lapse" appears in contexts such as: "And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people. Lapse. Yes, lapse-- was what a beautiful place.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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And then that money can pay for probably free community college for everybody, maybe even free college for people.

Lapse. Yes, lapse-- was what a beautiful place.

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noun

A temporary failure; a slip.

“memory lapse”

Synonyms:blooper gaffe thinko aberration

noun

A decline or fall in standards.

“The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity”

verb

To fall away gradually; to subside.

“This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended”

verb

To fall into error or heresy.

“To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers.”

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