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[loos] / lus /






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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

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

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

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

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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