loosen
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After filming the second episode, Reynolds began to loosen up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But with supplies under pressure, many are now expected to loosen those rules rather than risk empty shelves.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
It adds tang, salinity, and helps loosen the dip to your ideal consistency.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
Yet the memory-chip shortage has gotten bad enough that some big consumer-tech companies have asked administration officials to loosen the restrictions on working with China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Trembling with excitement, Ranofer could scarcely make his fingers loosen a strand of the wire and straighten it.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
“A flurry of tankers have taken the chance to exit the gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, as Iran loosens its grip on the key waterway under conditions stipulated under the agreement,” the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
The move loosens rules meant to restrict hydroflourocarbons, a class of climate-damaging chemicals used in cooling equipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
And when you whisk it into something, especially with a little acid, it loosens, lightens, turns almost plush.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2026
Some bigger changes will take place next week as high pressure loosens its grip.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
I hope Hel loosens up a little—at least enough to forget that she was so irritated with me earlier.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
After more than three years of sitting on a massive cash pile, Berkshire Hathaway finally loosened up and found a stock worth buying — its own.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
Morocco said it had strengthened, not loosened, its security measures in response to the sudden movement of people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Zucchini could be grated and cooked down until jammy, then loosened with pasta water; tomatoes could be sliced, salted and left to steep in olive oil.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Japan has loosened rules, external to allow for the increased use of coal-fired power plants, Italy is delaying the closure, external of its remaining stations until 2038, and India has postponed maintenance , externalshutdowns.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
He was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened hair, when Mrs. Fairfax emerged from her room.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Pictures of him loosening off under a Kingston Bridge flyover in a hotel car park.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
Last week, a Food and Drug Administration panel narrowly voted—with Kennedy’s support—to recommend the loosening of regulations around six peptides.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
Drapatiy is tasked with integrating advanced battlefield technology and loosening the military’s rigid, top-down decision-making structure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
A US review panel on Thursday recommended loosening restrictions on the much hyped peptide BPC-157, voting that specialized pharmacies be allowed to produce it despite alarm bells from medical experts over safety concerns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
He turned unsteadily, loosening his tie as he did it, and swayed out of the room.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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