loosen
Example Sentences
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Capital requirements are on course to be loosened.
Last week, the Mississippi House took up a bill that would loosen limits on the creation of new charter schools and make it easier for families to transfer from one public school to another.
She adjusted the shoulders of her blue jacket, then shook her skirt to loosen the dirt she’d collected on the walk.
From Literature
Investors rode into 2026 hopeful that a cocktail of lower interest rates, tax breaks, easing inflation and tariff clarity would loosen up consumer spending.
From MarketWatch
A Danish colony until 1953, Greenland gained home rule 26 years later and is contemplating eventually loosening its ties with Denmark.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
