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Meanings of loose in English
Usage of loose in English
1
Consider our work with former Soviet states to secure loose nuclear material.
2
Read: New law banning loose cigarette sales hurts spaza shops and hawkers
3
Tufts loose; ovicell small in proportion to the size of the cells.
4
In fact today it was very loose: almost ready to fall off.
5
Dow's solution involves cutting loose Greece and Portugal, and probably Ireland too.
6
Which means the virus was already loose in the New York community.
7
Just let that fold happen right there where the loose part is.
8
When credit conditions are loose, even the weakest companies can find funding.
9
Æsop is running loose in the woods; he is after a hare.
10
There would be quite a few loose ends to clear up, actually.
11
The men wore loose robes of gray; the women robes of blue.
12
Board's been loose since Red Foley bought that dock thirty years ago.
13
The prognosis on loose-head Nick Popplewell is a good deal more encouraging.
14
He was thinking of the wolves and panthers loose in the woods.
15
Slides are meant to be a bit loose; for me they work.
16
Pompey let loose six hundred lions in the arena in one day.
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Canada
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United States of America
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