loosing

present participle of loose
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as in firing
to cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force the archers loosed a great volley of arrows at the foot soldiers charging towards them

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Recent Examples of loosing Safer, then, to keep loosing arrows at others’ positions rather than one’s own. Shai Tubali, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loosing
Verb
  • During the 2024 rampage, two suspects wearing masks were captured on surveillance video shuffling up a driveway and firing weapons towards the home.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The challenge today is that chatbots, which tend to work as billions of neurons connected together in dense layers, start firing en masse when the LLM is working on a response.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In the other monologue, Ray drunkenly tells a story about unleashing scatological revenge on an abusive priest.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Large language models are unleashing a flood of slop that is threatening to degrade or even kill the internet.
    James Folta, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Chiefs set up the fourth-and-1 dagger to Brown with a bootleg, freeing Mahomes to roll out to his right and complete the throw on the run.
    Pete Sweeney, Kansas City Star, 29 Sep. 2025
  • These include freeing up money that can be spent on other parts of the car, such as aerodynamic development.
    Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The commonwealth has been without an operational freestanding birthing center since the 1980s, said Mary Kathryn DeLodder, director of the Kentucky Birth Coalition — a grassroots organization that led the charge in advocating for legislation loosening regulations for the facilities.
    Killian Baarlaer, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Earlier this week, hedge fund billionaire David Tepper issued a stern warning that loosening too much risks more inflation and poses other dangers to the economy and markets.
    Yun Li, CNBC, 19 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Guadagnino encourages our doubts, shooting Maggie in exaggerated horror-movie closeups set to the doomy bass notes and shrieking winds of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s score.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Sanford crashed his pickup truck into the church, set the building on fire and began shooting, striking multiple victims.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Taylor Swift is releasing an 89-minute film to theaters this weekend that will include a music video, lyric videos and commentary from her on the new album.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of releasing Guevara, the Board of Immigration Appeals reopened Guevara’s 13-year-old immigration case, which had been closed and authorized him to work in the US.
    Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Commanders say each mission, whether delivering ammunition or rescuing an animal, contributes to refining tactics for larger-scale use in the future.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The eventis sponsored by Frosty Faces, dedicated to rescuing senior animals otherwise facing euthanasia in the shelter system.
    Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
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  • Country music artist Morgan Wallen initially denied throwing a chair off the roof of Nashville bar Chief’s in 2024, according to police video footage obtained by The Associated Press.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In April 2024, Wallen was arrested after throwing a chair off the sixth-story roof of Eric Church’s new bar and honky-tonk, Chief’s, in downtown Nashville.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Oct. 2025

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“Loosing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loosing. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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