loosen

Example Sentences

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Yet the memory-chip shortage has gotten bad enough that some big consumer-tech companies have asked administration officials to loosen the restrictions on working with China.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026

As the pH shifts, the molecular bonds holding the tissue rigid begin to loosen.

From Science Daily • May 28, 2026

In November, parliament voted to replace a longstanding requirement to maintain a state surplus with a new balanced-budget rule, allowing the state to loosen its purse strings.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said last month that the government would loosen regulations for about a dozen peptides.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Thinking that a clever assignment might help loosen them up, I instructed my students to write a letter to their mothers in prison.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris