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footloose

[foot-loos] / ˈfʊtˌlus /


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Such deceptions mounted as footloose youth matured into a “pathologically restless” adulthood, to quote Matthiessen from a letter to Plimpton.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

"If they leave, either the jobs disappear entirely, or factories scrabble to receive orders from footloose buying agents who care only about cheap labour and do not worry about factory conditions," Bowman told Reuters.

From Reuters Aug. 16, 2023

He left in 2016, spending his days footloose and fancy-free at the Oakland Zoo.

From Seattle Times Nov. 23, 2022

But beneath that is something unexpected and even richer: anger at herself for having failed to care in time about the squalid carelessness of a tossed-off, footloose life.

From New York Times Aug. 12, 2022

It should not be denied . .. that being footloose has always ex-hilarated us.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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