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To some extent, these looseknit plain-dwelling tribes were already doomed by exotic diseases to which they rapidly fell victim, and there is some evidence to suggest that they were even driven to tear each other apart.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Whether it's setting up a computer cluster at the Houston Astrodome or creating a community built and operated telecom center in Algiers, the looseknit coalition of Community Wireless Networking groups has proven to be an effective force for bringing telecommunications infrastructure to the marginalized and ignored.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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And her dress was an improbable combination of bodiced looseknit and bishop sleeves.
The Vatican Rip Gash, Jonathan 1981
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Some are said to belong to the Free Syrian Army, a looseknit group of military defectors.
The Seattle Times 2012
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In Hinck’s alternate universe, the soldiers, forming something like a looseknit formal militia, are known as “guardians.”
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In Hinck’s alternate universe, the soldiers, forming something like a looseknit formal militia, are known as “guardians.”
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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