loose
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Inevitably, this OpenAI hack has further fuelled fears of what could happen if AI agents are let loose.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
For decades, the way to stay cool while exercising was simple: wear less clothing and make what you did wear light and loose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
One of those things was a more playful, loose approach to acting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Many buildings were built on loose, soft sediment that amplifies shaking during tremors, Linayo said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Again the big monkey turned his end of the net loose, ran back down the trail, lay down, and had another rolling, squalling fit.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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The changing picture is nevertheless likely to make for tense discussions among the ECB's "hawks", who favour rate hikes, and the "doves", who advocate looser policy.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Advocates for rate increases start from a shared premise: Policy may be looser than the Fed intended it to be even after cutting last year, and the economy no longer needs the support.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
He was utilised off the bench against Morocco, Clarke hoping he'd have a bigger impact when the game was looser and the space was opening up.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
Morrie was in his wheelchair by the kitchen table, wearing a loose cotton shirt and even looser black sweatpants.
From "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
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At that time, Japan was mired in deflation and had the world’s loosest monetary policy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 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
As expected, the Rangers were the loosest team after the workouts.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
According to Goldman Sachs's financial conditions indexes, global financial conditions are the loosest since April last year, and emerging market financial conditions are now the loosest since February last year.
From Reuters ● Jul. 16, 2023
And Gabe, by the loosest definition, was human.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
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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
But I looses my eyesight a couple years back and I can't do nothin' no more.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
"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
There was the yearning for identification loosed in me by the sight of a solitary ant carrying a burden upon a mysterious journey.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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
Presumably nobody wants to start loosing off missiles and set off World War Three?
From BBC ● May 23, 2023
“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
“He came too late, though, and this folly... buying sellswords, loosing two dragons on the city ... that was madness and worse than madness. That was treason.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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