loosened
Example Sentences
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Maybe a spoonful of jam loosened with warm water.
From Salon • May 25, 2026
Accounting programs are reinventing curricula due to AI automation of entry-level work and loosened CPA licensing laws.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
All this has loosened OPEC’s grip on the U.S. economy, and Americans have felt less pain during this energy crisis.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Anxious investors worry that underwriting standards may have loosened at private-credit firms as it rapidly grew to become a $2 trillion industry.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 29, 2026
“Perhaps you do not understand. I offer you something you cannot have even if I loosened your hands and gave back your weapon. By that, Lord Gwydion, I mean—your life.”
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
