looseness

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Noun
  • Retinoids also stimulate the production of collagen and elastin, says Sobel, which helps firm up skin laxity.
    Emily Orofino, Allure, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Then, over time, U Beauty’s SIREN capsule technology continually delivers fatty acids, peptides, and biometric plant extracts to target laxity and boost collagen production in the skin.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Clark, instead, memorializes Black Twitter, hoping to prevent further perversion of Black innovation, Black language, culture and style.
    J Wortham, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Originally, there was a title sequence that had nothing to do with John Doe and his fingertips or any of his composition book perversions.
    Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Ricardo Reyes Mata, a catholic priest and Dallas resident, was arrested by Garland police Monday on two felony counts of indecency with a child, police said in a release.
    Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 7 May 2024
Noun
  • These issues, now understood as symptoms of EDS, were caused by the disorder's impact on connective tissues, leading to joint instability and degeneration over time.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 18 Jan. 2025
  • During the ruckus, Blake is gashed by the beast, beginning his gradual transformation and degeneration into a Wolf Man.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
Noun
  • In turn, episodes of fraud and misconduct in small local governments don’t always surface publicly unless criminal charges are filed – and problems short of criminality may be kept quiet.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The department has since played the role of overseer in the investigation, and reserves the right to take over again in the event of potential criminality.
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Not a general book on life after marital dissolution, or one about Meghan's past experience.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Several members of the coalition have repeatedly threatened to abandon the coalition if a deal was finalized – a move that would likely prompt the dissolution of Netanyahu's current government.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 16 Jan. 2025
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