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Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
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Then, over time, U Beauty’s SIREN capsule technology continually delivers fatty acids, peptides, and biometric plant extracts to target laxity and boost collagen production in the skin.—
Kiana Murden,
Vogue,
16 Oct. 2024 -
However, post-weight-loss surgeries predominantly focus on correcting skin laxity and restoring volume and typically include a combination of abdominoplasty (i.e. tummy tuck), breast lift or augmentation, brachioplasty (i.e., arm, thigh lifts).—
Jessica Ourisman,
Forbes,
16 Dec. 2024
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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
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Originally, there was a title sequence that had nothing to do with John Doe and his fingertips or any of his composition book perversions.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
2 Jan. 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
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Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.—
Natalie Kinkade,
JSTOR Daily,
25 Sep. 2024
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Valentín, a political prisoner, shares a cell with Molina, a window dresser convicted of public indecency.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
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Ricardo Reyes Mata, a catholic priest and Dallas resident, was arrested by Garland police Monday on two felony counts of indecency with a child, police said in a release.—
Marley Malenfant,
Austin American-Statesman,
7 May 2024
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The native of Kaneohe, Hawaii, was diagnosed with Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, a disease that causes vision loss due to a degeneration of the optic nerve.—
Candace Oehler,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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Without enough magnesium, your body cannot regulate its calcium levels, potentially resulting in peripheral nerve degeneration.—
Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, RDN,
Health,
23 Dec. 2024
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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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And why, after the flurry of arrests in 2023, has Chinese law enforcement action slowed despite a resurgence in criminality?—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
21 Jan. 2025
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The settlement would enable the Murdoch camp to quash the public presentation of evidence by Harry and Watson's legal team —evidence meant to show that the Murdoch daily tabloid the Sun also engaged in widespread criminality in its reporting methods.—
David Folkenflik,
NPR,
21 Jan. 2025
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Not a general book on life after marital dissolution, or one about Meghan's past experience.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Several members of the coalition have repeatedly threatened to abandon the coalition if a deal was finalized – a move that would likely prompt the dissolution of Netanyahu's current government.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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