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[loos] / lus /






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Morris appeared to have scored earlier in the half, getting loose on a breakaway before chipping the ball over Galaxy keeper JT Marcinkowski.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

Dodgers starter Blake Snell, who hasn’t given up more than one run in any of his seven starts back from surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow, was stifling on the mound.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2026

After an ad for Jake Paul’s gambling app Betr put “Entourage” stars Adrian Grenier and Jeremy Piven together again, creator Doug Ellin let loose, Variety reports:

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

But then, he continued, "all hell broke loose".

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The floor tilts, and my head buzzes like a swarm of bees has been let loose from its hive.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

Tai chi is traditionally practiced in looser clothes and flat shoes.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

China has been cracking down on a practice known as "Singapore-washing," which is when companies leave the country to take advantage of looser regulations, global customers or funding opportunities.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

But looser fits also continued to put up sales gains, and Gass said consumers had shown the company that it could be much more than jeans.

From MarketWatch Jul. 9, 2026

A blouse, by definition blousy, should have a looser fabric: silk, rayon, chiffon.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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, U.S. financial conditions are the loosest since August and have eased 150 basis points since mid-October.

From Reuters Feb. 2, 2023

I say guy, but I mean it in the loosest sense of the word.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Then the young man looses the rope, and, having done so, casts a cursory glance at the boat to which it is attached.

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

"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 closing weeks of his presidency, Biden loosed his pardoning pen.

From Salon Jan. 22, 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

Towering behind one building was a gigantic three- story-high ribbed-metal pipe, like a caterpillar loosed from the mind of H. G. Wells.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

I don’t really know how you’re supposed to deal with loosing your best mate and your only sibling.

From BBC Dec. 10, 2018

She gives me a small smile, before loosing a monstrous yawn.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer




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