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Around the same time, a loose group of CEOs affiliated with API and the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, a trade group that represents refiners, sprang into action.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

To patients whose underarms are mildly or moderately sagging, Smith has been suggesting a minimally invasive, three-step alternative—one he does not recommend to those with significantly loose skin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

You need to tie up a few loose ends, for sure.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Hesitancy in the first instance to fight for the loose ball, weakness in the second instance when trying to prevent the cross and then defensive disorganisation and bewilderment in the end.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

It didn’t take Gandy long to realize that whatever it was that had hold of him wasn’t going to turn him loose and was much more than he could handle.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Tai chi is traditionally practiced in looser clothes and flat shoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Like skinny jeans, they eventually became unavoidable — and thus a bit stale, giving way to looser fits and bulkier “dad” sneakers.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

The changing picture is nevertheless likely to make for tense discussions among the ECB's "hawks", who favour rate hikes, and the "doves", who advocate looser policy.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

Advocates for rate increases start from a shared premise: Policy may be looser than the Fed intended it to be even after cutting last year, and the economy no longer needs the support.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Now, however, though the code of silence is still nominally in place, inmate lips seem looser and officers’ use of snitches more widespread.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

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

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

But it's the electronic element in the whole secrets business that is the loosest and hardest to control.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023

He had told me to wear comfortable clothes, so I’m wearing the loosest pants and sweater I could find.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

Izzy looses Emmy Lou's hand, even as she draws it away, and, behold, his hand now is in one of Minnie's, and Emmy Lou's is in the other.

From Emmy Lou's Road to Grace Being a Little Pilgrim's Progress by George Madden Martin

"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

In the words of the Yeats poem, "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… Surely some revelation is at hand."

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 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

We have entered another age of disunited nations, an era when mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Garth Greyfeather and Bearded Ben nocked shafts, bent their bows, loosed.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

There he stood, loosing shaft after shaft at the archery butts until his shoulders ached and his fingers were bloody, pausing only long enough to pull the arrows from the targets for another round.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin