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- adjective
superlative form ofloose : mostloose .
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Examples
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Today, "that was the loosest his arm has been and the best stuff he's shown" all spring, General Manager Mike Rizzo said.
Chien-Ming Wang throws his 'best stuff' of the spring, will pitch in games 2011
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"It is the loosest sort of American history -- it's almost like America not by fact, but by feeling."
Stephen Colbert And Maira Kalman: Abraham Lincoln Is 'My Man,''Would Be The Most Incredible Boyfriend' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Ironically, it is very tempting to see in DC Challenge! the corporate-superhero-serial business in miniature -- a sprawling, shambling mess of narrative threads, cultivated by isolated teams of writers, artists, and editors, and subject only to the loosest governance.
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Supporters of the measure argue it would help deter criminals; opponents claim it would endanger innocent people by effectively forcing most of the country to conform to regulations in states with the loosest gun ownership standards.
Senate Democrats splinter over controversial concealed gun measure 2009
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Supporters of the measure argue it would help deter criminals; opponents claim it would endanger innocent people by effectively forcing most of the country to conform to regulations in states with the loosest gun ownership standards.
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This being Carnival, there are only the loosest rules.
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But ultimately experimental fiction can provide a paradigm only if it is one that rejects the creation of paradigms except in the loosest possible sense of the term -- the model fiction writers should follow is the absence of a model.
Postmodernism 2010
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But they're not doing business there, except in the loosest sense of the phrase.
MIND MELD: How Does Blogging and Social Networking Affect the Publishing Industry? 2009
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In her loosest phases Li overhit her forehand, meeting it on the rise and ballooning it beyond the baseline.
Wimbledon 2011: Li Na loses way and husband as Sabine Lisicki triumphs 2011
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Mehldau often applies his hypnotic improv approach to Broadway standards, bebop, folk-pop classics or the music of Radiohead – and Thile's fast-flowing long lines, and cherishing of catchy themes within the loosest spontaneous flights fit that very compatibly.
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