Meanings
- not comparablePartially lapsed.
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MRS. PATERSON, a runner and semilapsed vegetarian — she eats meat once a week to fend off anemia — spends weekdays in Manhattan with her son and commutes to Albany most weekends; she and her husband rented out their house in Guilderland, an Albany suburb, and have moved into the Executive Mansion, where she is continuing Ms. Wall Spitzer’s “greening” initiative.
2008 June 6, Robin Finn, “No Bed of Roses for a Sudden First Lady”, in New York Times
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