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Recent Examples of footloose Huppert plays a footloose and intense French woman at large in Korea and vaguely making ends meet as an untrained language tutor with eccentric methods. Patrick Frater, Variety, 19 Feb. 2024 This anthology is a footloose excavation of Muslim food writing foraged from some of South Asia’s best writers, with a recipe tailing each essay. Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023 These natural attributes no longer matter as firms are attracted to cities where footloose knowledge workers congregate. Ian Goldin, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2023 The result is footloose foreign capital flows out of emerging markets that are deemed riskier. Cristina Bodea, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for footloose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footloose
Adjective
  • The left-hander began the ninth with a groundout, but after Ketel Marte homered and Geraldo Perdomo drew a nine-pitch walk, Spencer Bivens and Erik Miller began to get loose.
    Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 4 July 2025
  • Make sure to set your face with a pressed or loose setting powder, and then continue with the rest of your eye makeup.
    Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • The podcast format gives Tolbert a more freewheeling forum than radio.
    Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2025
  • There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Charania also reported that the Nuggets are signing guard Bruce Brown in free agency.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 1 July 2025
  • This isn’t a free pass to every office space owner.
    Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Even casual users should take a moment to review their settings and chat history to make sure personal details aren’t being shared without their knowledge.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 July 2025
  • For garden parties, vacation, and or just hanging out, sandals or sneakers are a more casual option.
    Jana Ackermann, Glamour, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • The protagonist of this beguiling novel, Lina, lives with her father in a realm seemingly unbound by ordinary time.
    The New Yorker, New Yorker, 9 June 2025
  • Today, China’s giant mining and refining companies operate without much pressure to remain commercially viable, unbound by many constraints on firms funded by private investors and lenders.
    Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2025

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“Footloose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footloose. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.

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