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loosely

[loos-lee] / ˈlus li /




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He began writing only after having had a varied cosmopolitan life, and in 2009, already in his 40s, published “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” a collection of loosely connected short stories.

From The Wall Street Journal

One example is “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film that is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s post-Watergate novel “Vineland.”

From Salon

Most of his lyrics read the way poems do, abandoning the typical verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-verse-chorus structure of standard pop songs for the loosely associative through line typical of free-verse poetry.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Jewish faith has a moral obligation of tzedakah, loosely defined as charity but literally translated as righteousness.

From The Wall Street Journal

The facade presents a series of rectangular frames, loosely stacked atop one another, as if we were peering into so many open boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal