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San Juan Hills backup quarterback Parker Armstrong was given the reins to let the ball loose by coach Robert Frith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

Whatever you do, never put a sharps container or loose needles in your recycling bin.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

There’s only a loose connection between an artwork’s beauty and its price.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

Financial conditions have begun to tighten, but they remain fairly loose.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

Behind me, I heard someone say, “If that boy would turn that old hound loose, I think he’d tie into that train.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

After playing looser passes, Arsenal, known for their duelling, were beaten by a Brighton side that swarmed around the ball.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Regulators have ushered in looser regulation for financial institutions and a more permissive dealmaking environment, while buoyant stocks and more initial public offerings have propelled banks to record profits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Baltimore has a new voice in first-year coach Jesse Minter, and Lamar Jackson figures to play looser because of it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

The ring of mist that surrounded the island was looser somehow, so the sunrise blurred rather than creating its usual clear pictures.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

But it's the electronic element in the whole secrets business that is the loosest and hardest to control.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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

Among the Phenicians, as we have seen, Baal-Melkarth looses the girdle of the moon-goddess; the Greeks transferred the legend of Melicertes to their Heracles.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker

All told, The Beatles and their magisterial producer George Martin loosed 16 amazing new songs into the world in August 1966, an incredible bounty, by any measure.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

"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

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

After decades of designing linear video game adventures such as the Ninja Gaiden and Nioh series, Team Ninja has dropped the guardrails and loosed players into an open world.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024

Involuntarily Frodo loosed his hold and put his hands over his head and ears.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Both Emma’s and Simon’s deaths, falling down steep set of stairs after loosing hold of a necklace, are consistent with the novel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2022

“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