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Recent Examples of footloose 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 In step with policymakers in the Biden administration, the authors point to the need for fundamental changes in how governments tax corporate profits in a world of footloose balance sheets. Michael Keen and Joel Slemrod, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021 Tip the world, and the fearful and the timid, nailed securely and drearily in place, would stay put — but the footloose and bold and adventuresome would roll into L.A. and remake themselves. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for footloose 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for footloose
Adjective
  • Get your shovel out and make sure all loose objects are secured!
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Certainly, Britt Lower is playing her with the looser physicality of Helly, and the contrast between the two is more obvious in the season’s first episode to feature both versions.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Now, China is putting its freewheeling facial recognition industry on notice.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Incongruity isn’t seen as a blemish, and the lyrics tend to be more freewheeling and braggadocious.
    Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
Adjective
  • Get our free daily crossword puzzle, sudoku, word search and arcade games.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The Argyle Lunar New Year Celebration will be 10 a.m.-4 p.m. with parade kicking off from Argyle Street and Sheridan Road at 1 p.m. Feb. 8; more details on the free event at partners.exploreuptown.org.
    Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Even to a casual viewer, the waxing gibbous moon of Friday, Feb. 7 will appear unusual.
    Joe Rao, Space.com, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Never risking outright political statement, Salles exemplifies the casual commitment Hollywood admires as a mirror of its own glib engagement.
    Armond White, National Review, 7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Fantasmas, meanwhile, feels totally unbound by color.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
  • But such revelry for Cuba’s outcasts, for the first time allowed to be unbound, comes at an unthinkable price.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 20 Dec. 2024

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