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President Nixon admitted, in effect, that he was gutting the international monetary system by cutting loose the dollar from the gold-price peg, the Journal wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Johnson keeps the tone so zingy and loose that you don’t have to know Bourdain at all to enjoy the movie.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Gruel talks Kennedy through the mixture, offering the kind of loose, adaptable instruction home cooks have received from television chefs for decades.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Federal prosecutors charged several people with vandalism, including former Olympic canoeist David Hearn, a 65-year-old who maintains he just picked up a piece of loose lining because he was curious …

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026

I wanted to leave him loose for that, so he could find the right place.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Shares of banks large and small have risen this year as investors bet on a period of looser regulation further boosting banks’ profits.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

He was utilised off the bench against Morocco, Clarke hoping he'd have a bigger impact when the game was looser and the space was opening up.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Some, including current SEC chief Paul Atkins, long argued for a looser view of what counts as material for investors, warning that extra disclosures deter companies from going public.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Along with a looser framing, shadow and contrast highlight loneliness and emotional ambiguity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026

One of the arms is slightly longer, and the neck hole is a little looser than I wanted.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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, U.S. financial conditions are the loosest since August and have eased 150 basis points since mid-October.

From Reuters ● Feb. 2, 2023

I say guy, but I mean it in the loosest sense of the word.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

LME halts #Nickel trade - #China trader looses billions in Nickel short.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2022

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

It seizes you all at once, and never looses you again while there is breath in your body.

From Success and How He Won It by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

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

Mrs. Muokelu was standing behind Baby, rebraiding the braids Olanna had loosed.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

Her head bent forward in concentration, Dahl struck the keys, loosing a mesmerizing cascade of notes.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

“He came too late, though, and this folly... buying sellswords, loosing two dragons on the city ... that was madness and worse than madness. That was treason.”

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