loose
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Chaos broke loose in the media and behind the scenes at ABC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
In the first innings, Stubbs, two overs after Wiaan Mulder had been bounced out, top-edged a pull to fine leg, and in the second he played a loose drive on one.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
We spent many weekends sorting through all the photo albums and loose photos we’d amassed or inherited, tossing the duplicate pictures and trashing my dad’s slides that were impossible to view easily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Rocket exhaust can blast dust and loose material away from the ground, potentially affecting nearby equipment and structures.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
“That tumble I took out of the wagon yesterday shook loose every bone in my body,” she said.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
After playing looser passes, Arsenal, known for their duelling, were beaten by a Brighton side that swarmed around the ball.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Veteran teammates have been even looser with their superlatives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
China has been cracking down on a practice known as "Singapore-washing" in which companies leave the country to take advantage of looser regulations, global customers or funding opportunities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
In the Sun Belt, relatively looser regulatory requirements spurred more new-home construction, which in turn boosted housing supply.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 22, 2026
There was a time, he told me, when he’d been looser, more wild.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Few Indians—other than the many who migrated there as merchants and agricultural laborers under the Raj—felt any but the loosest kinship with Burma.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
But “The Paper” is a spinoff of “The Office” — in the loosest sense — so this isn’t a soapbox.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
As expected, the Rangers were the loosest team after the workouts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
According to Goldman Sachs's financial conditions indexes, global financial conditions are the loosest since April last year, and emerging market financial conditions are now the loosest since February last year.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023
A secret kept, in other words, only by the loosest definition, so that now—as I get ready to leak the information myself—I feel only a slight twinge of filial guilt.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Social tension could rise if Lula's government looses popular support in a context of greater economic difficulties, according to a report led by Christopher Garman, Eurasia's managing director for the Americas.
From Reuters ● Jan. 10, 2023
The loser looses any realistic path to the postseason.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2021
But the film looses coherence and urgency on the dark side of the moon.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2020
In fact, going from May to June with about 360,000 fans at three races, to June to October with far fewer if any, looses waves of quirks.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 19, 2020
This species usually seeds very sparingly, but when once introduced, it looses no time in spreading by creeping stems.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by W. J. (William James) Beal
All told, The Beatles and their magisterial producer George Martin loosed 16 amazing new songs into the world in August 1966, an incredible bounty, by any measure.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It's like flying a brick – there's only one way, and it's down," said Mr Davies, from Bollington, Cheshire, describing what it was like once the the glider was loosed.
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
Midway through his speech, the president quoted his favorite Irish poet, William Butler Yeats: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2024
After decades of designing linear video game adventures such as the Ninja Gaiden and Nioh series, Team Ninja has dropped the guardrails and loosed players into an open world.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Jerry loosed the genoa halyard and showed Dicey how to pull it down and hold it in at the same time.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
Nor do they hover around the main action, loosing barbs of criticism or leering suggestively over their martinis or wistfully reminiscing about the past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
This step is critical to keep all those juices inside the bird versus loosing those tasty juices into the bottom of your serving platter.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Presumably nobody wants to start loosing off missiles and set off World War Three?
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
“I’m loosing the hope,” the mother, who is not being named to protect her safety, texted in broken English to Principal Nate McGill, who urged her to not give up.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2021
Rawiya locked arms with him as they paraded down the hallway, passing more classrooms, students emptying into the stream like the loosing of a dam.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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