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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
Noun
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The latter is a mix of five peptide chains to improve laxity at different levels of the skin, leaving it with a firmer, more youthful appearance.—
Jennifer Hussein,
Allure,
6 Apr. 2025 -
Face-tuning apps play a role in this, Killeen explained, pointing to facial laxity — a term used by surgeons to refer to looser skin — as an example that may seem unappealing but is expected with daily movement and neck function.—
Leah Dolan,
CNN,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The career professionals at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, led by Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, refused, as Bove’s plan was a perversion of the government’s power to prosecute for partisan political ends.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
Noun
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If the mother relied on devices, media, or a nanny to provide care, her children were widely believed to be in danger of sliding into degeneracy.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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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
Noun
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Aside from the claims of overall impropriety and indecency, the men have made other individual claims against the chief.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Less than two years later in 1977, he was convicted of indecency with a 12-year-old girl and served just over three years in prison.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Our study revealed that the supergene shows only minimal signs of degeneration.—
Donna L. Maney,
Scientific American,
18 Feb. 2025
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The virus spreads through contaminated food, water, or direct contact with an infected individual, attacking nerve cells in the spinal cord and leading to muscle weakness, degeneration, and paralysis.—
Tim Ryan,
Newsweek,
17 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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Regarding the migrants sent to Guantánamo Bay, the Trump Administration has not provided sufficient proof of their status and criminality.—
Made by History,
Time,
26 Mar. 2025
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The medical examiner’s office would automatically do an autopsy if foul play or criminality was suspected, but there is none, so the office did not overrule the family’s decision.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Every good film is, to some degree, a transporting experience—a dissolution of boundaries between here and there, then and now.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2025
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As President Donald Trump pursues the dissolution of the Department of Education, local leaders are scrambling to understand how staffing cuts and the potential loss of federal funding will affect schools.—
Jennah Pendleton,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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