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Recent Examples of footloose Of all the world’s footloose international students, 15 percent come to the United States, the largest share of any country in the world. David G. Victor, Foreign Affairs, 28 May 2025 Defiant and determined to get back home on his own to his mother and grandfather Gerald (Paul Weller) in East London, George encounters real danger as a distraught Rita tries to find her footloose son. Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2024 The footloose couple performed on the opening night of the Symphony of Dance tour in Melbourne, Fl. Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for footloose
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Adjective
  • By contrast, the ICE facility was a mess of overflowing dumpsters, loose body armor and crowd control munitions and a broken HVAC air conditioning system that raised both temperatures and tempers in the aging building.
    Keith Wilson, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Billowing sleeves and a loose, flowy hem allow the top to move with you through the airport, during sightseeing excursions, and even out to a nice dinner, and the neutral sage color keeps the top sufficiently wearable as your new go-to basic.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 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
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    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • His press office has taken to sending out text-free press releases composed solely of images of ICE agents pointing guns at civilians.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The resilience of the fast casual food category also comes from its relatively smaller exposure to the lower income consumers that have been under more pressure in the current macroeconomic environment, Cho noted.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The Santa Fe Opera offers a unique experience by combining traditional opera with casual parking lot tailgating.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • With Worthy back, the Chiefs offense suddenly seems unbound as well.
    Jesse Newell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Ideas flow when the body is occupied but the mind is unbound.
    Karen Palmer September 19, Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025

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“Footloose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/footloose. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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