loose cannon
Example Sentences
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On “So Unanchored,” Barberie has revived her loose cannon role in their dynamic, raw and unfiltered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“Currently the logic is not to escalate, and when you put in a player that is a loose cannon in the mix, you lose control of the situation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Door staff and witnesses told the trial that O'Pray had been a "loose cannon" and was "very erratic" that night.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2023
Nixon and Kissinger saw him as a loose cannon, and they wondered whether he was divulging these secrets, possibly to foreign agents.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2023
Forty years old, with a thick mustache and the posture of a flagpole, Liddy was known around Washington as intelligent, fiercely loyal, and something of a loose cannon.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
