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loose

[loos] / lus /






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

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2026

On his first possession in the game, Vanderbilt repeatedly tipped a loose ball up in the air to keep it alive long enough for Austin Reaves to grab an offensive rebound.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Brand, wearing a black suit with an open neck white shirt and a loose black tie, replied: "I have not."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

There’s only a loose connection between an artwork’s beauty and its price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

I must have knocked a fragment of the letter loose onto the locker floor when I started my shift last night.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

He seated a top economic adviser, Stephen Miran, on the board, and Miran dissented in favor of looser policy at all six meetings he attended.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 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

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

As expected, the Rangers were the loosest team after the workouts.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

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

From Salon ● Dec. 16, 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

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

"All right, sir," said a voice at his ear; "I am the boy as looses the cravats!"

From Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell

"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

“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

“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


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