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Recent Examples of looseness
There’s a looseness to the Giants’ offense again, a confidence that’s been missing.
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Dianna Russini, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Depending on the brand, waist taper, wash and looseness will differ.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Stability and Innovation – Structures scale the business, looseness sparks creativity.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In my experience, the lid looseness is simply a feeling, not an actual problem.
—Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Dianna Russini, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Depending on the brand, waist taper, wash and looseness will differ.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025
Stability and Innovation – Structures scale the business, looseness sparks creativity.
—Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
In my experience, the lid looseness is simply a feeling, not an actual problem.
—Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
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Per Scotto, Edey had a surgery to address excessive ligamentous laxity in his left ankle, and is slated to need another six-to-nine weeks to return.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Sep. 2025
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The formula can also address multiple signs of sun damage, including fine lines and wrinkles, discoloration, and skin laxity.—
Deanna Pai,
Vogue,
19 Sep. 2025
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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Dropping the criminal charges against Adams amounted to a political perversion of the justice system.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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Empsall’s small church offers classes on Christian resistance to fascism and how to reject White Christian nationalism as a perversion of Christianity.—
Liam Adams,
USA Today,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Why subject your kids to degeneracy and violence?—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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Trump has been tied to Epstein, and though there is no evidence exposing the president’s participation in Epstein’s acts of degeneracy, the question remains on the minds of many Americans — Was Trump complicit?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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But Powell did successfully lobby Congress to significantly hike the amount of money the FCC could fine broadcasters for indecency.—
Michael J. Socolow,
The Conversation,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Good Mother was a good try at a legal drama about a woman whose lover is accused of indecency with her young daughter.—
Matt Zoller Seitz,
Vulture,
12 Oct. 2025
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The immediate goal of this concerted information operation is the debasement of American Jews, but the more politically salient goal is the gaslighting of American evangelical Christians—the very core of the MAGA base, and an overwhelmingly pro-Jewish, pro-Israel constituency at that.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Bitcoin joined gold in the debasement trade as a digital alternative to traditional currencies.—
Krysta Escobar,Jill Schneider,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
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Looking ahead, the research team plans to test the new compounds in animal and human studies, in hopes that this could lead to a new approach for slowing or repairing brain degeneration for patients with neurodegenerative diseases.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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And, based on MRI scans taken at the beginning and end of the study, the intervention group appeared to have slower degeneration of cartilage in their knees.—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Sep. 2025
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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