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as in lasciviousness
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Recent Examples of looseness
In my experience, the lid looseness is simply a feeling, not an actual problem.
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Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Emily Johnson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
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For example, the neck often shows the earliest signs of change in skin laxity, so using the right products, like the SkinMedica Neck Correct Cream or RoC Multi Correxion Cream, can give you visible results while supporting the integrity of menopausal skin.—
Essence,
Essence,
30 July 2025
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This further enhances the skin’s firmness and elasticity, improving the appearance of skin laxity and fine lines.—
Audrey Noble,
Vogue,
7 July 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
Noun
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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
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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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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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Stern, who is 71, first signed with satellite radio broadcaster Sirius in 2004 (prior to its merger with XM), in part to be free of oversight by the FCC, which had levied millions of dollars in fines on terrestrial radio stations that carried his show for alleged indecency.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
8 Sep. 2025
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Howard is still facing four charges that stemmed from the investigation, including one count of official misconduct, making an unlawful proposition, public indecency and public nudity.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
28 Aug. 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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The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration describes FTD as a group of brain disorders caused by degeneration of the frontal and/or temporal lobes of the brain that affect behavior, language and movement, according to The Associated Press.—
Stephanie Nolasco,
FOXNews.com,
10 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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In North Carolina, as in other Southern states, newspapers in the Jim Crow era often egregiously exaggerated stories about Black criminality.—
Carlo Versano,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
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Hanson parlayed his small-time criminality into a risky alliance with a powerful Mexican drug lord, intertwining his quest for wealth with the deadly world of organized crime.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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