loosened

Different transcription initiation sites can become available as a gene is tightened or loosened, and different proteins may be created.

But in 1965, Congress loosened immigration restrictions and remade the demographics of this country.

Returning to the trail, with its soothing chorus of crickets, velvety laurel sumac shrubs and feathery wild grasses, something inside me loosened.

They decreased as COVID-era shutdowns loosened but still pop up periodically.

After swallowing a couple of huge shots in the eighth, Flint came through strongest in the final rounds as Hatton tired and loosened his defences.