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[loos] / lus /






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Drivers shared video of loose panels and other problems on X. Critics of Musk’s role in politics vandalized some of the vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

A loose deadline for LIV to confirm its players for 2027 had been set for last Sunday - a point which, having now passed, appears to be drawing the saga to an end.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

Up next is “Tracking Sessions,” which are initial loose takes with the whole band, but not finished vocals.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

Choudhury said he feared it could be flammable or come loose, as had happened previously.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

This is even worse than hills saying hello, he thought while watching the loose ribbon inexplicably fall to the ground.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

While some areas enforce rules that mean shared bikes can only be left in specific areas, others have looser rules.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

So although MS NOW may be scrappier and looser these days, at least its reporters and pundits aren’t working through an institutional existential crisis.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 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

He’s previously implied that AI’s boost to productivity might allow looser monetary policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

I asked a small group who came to class early, when some of our best, loosest conversations happened.

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2023

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

The woman who once looses her hold on her moral nature can never recover herself.

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

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

The Ancient chuckled and loosed his donkey to drink.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

Both Emma’s and Simon’s deaths, falling down steep set of stairs after loosing hold of a necklace, are consistent with the novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2022

“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

It also shows Freeman, an actor known for playing nice guys and the occasional nice hobbit, loosing the anger that he usually keeps coiled and letting his rage flag fly.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2020

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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