Issue
Issue verb - To produce and release for distribution in printed form.
Lapse
Lapse verb - To come to an end.
How words are described
| similar | similar issue | similar lapse |
| common | common issue | common lapse |
| certain | certain issue | certain lapse |
| single | single issue | single lapse |
| Other adjectives: serious, huge, little, moral, major, mental, comic, recent, one-shot. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Heroic B.S.O.D.: Booster Gold has a complete emotional collapse in the first issue when Skeets first begins to lapse in his historical knowledge.
Source: Comic Book / 52 - The issue goes to outright terrifying with Pinkie Pie's lapse into depression in "Party of One", Fluttershy's lapse into Yandere at the climax of "The Best Night Ever", and Twilight Sparkle's complete psychotic break in "Lesson Zero".
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Lapse and Issue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/issue/lapse
Issue & Lapse. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/issue/lapse>.
Lapse or Issue. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/issue/lapse.
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