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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
Noun
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Some studies have found hormones may affect ligament laxity, suggesting injury risk may increase at various stages of the cycle.—
Susan Lacke,
Outside Online,
2 Feb. 2025 -
Retinoids also stimulate the production of collagen and elastin, says Sobel, which helps firm up skin laxity.—
Emily Orofino,
Allure,
29 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Molina, a gay hairdresser convicted of public indecency during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, has been sent to the political wing of a prison and put in the same cell as Valentin Arregui (a solid, if unremarkable Diego Luna), an intense and serious-minded Marxist revolutionary.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
27 Jan. 2025
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In a grimy torture complex of a Buenos Aires prison as military dictatorship rages in the outside world, Luis is locked up for public indecency, while Valentin is behind bars for his participation in a leftist revolutionary group trying to topple the government.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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The potential dissolution between the Kings and their franchise player could be traced back more than a year.—
Chris Biderman,
Sacramento Bee,
29 Jan. 2025
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In the past, Israel exercised caution in assisting Ukraine, supplying Kyiv with early warning radars and humanitarian aid but eschewing deeper cooperation, fearing retaliation against Russian Jews and the dissolution of the deconfliction channels with Russia in Syria.—
Nicole Grajewski,
Foreign Affairs,
28 Jan. 2025
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