: in a loose manner
loosely attached
a collection of loosely connected stories
His shoes are set tidily together in a corner with his socks draped loosely across them.—
Felix Carroll
Felix CarrollTexting freed a generation from the strictures and inconvenience (and awkwardness) of phone calls, while allowing people to be more loosely and constantly connected.—Jenna Wortham
Jenna WorthamThe novel is loosely based on the life of Georgia O'Keeffe.
Loosely translated from Japanese, umami means delicious or yummy.—N. Seppa
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The show is loosely inspired by a woman named Julia Butterfly Hill, who in the 1990s, spent more than two years living in a 1,000-year-old tree to save it from being chopped down.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Perry, an Atlantic contributing writer and a National Book Award–winning author, fills her latest work with accounts of ingenuity and Black resilience that are held together, loosely but intentionally, with threads of cerulean, sapphire, and azure.
—Omari Weekes, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
There are two caveats here — that these metrics are loosely (negatively) correlated, and the goal-kick law change ahead of 2019-20 facilitated more short build-up — but City have been trending towards more risk-averse approaches under Guardiola for years.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
The show was loosely inspired by the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the two journalists who broke the story of Gibson’s con, leading to her conviction.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
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Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
Perry, an Atlantic contributing writer and a National Book Award–winning author, fills her latest work with accounts of ingenuity and Black resilience that are held together, loosely but intentionally, with threads of cerulean, sapphire, and azure.
—Omari Weekes, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2025
There are two caveats here — that these metrics are loosely (negatively) correlated, and the goal-kick law change ahead of 2019-20 facilitated more short build-up — but City have been trending towards more risk-averse approaches under Guardiola for years.
—Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
The show was loosely inspired by the non-fiction book The Woman Who Fooled the World, written by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, the two journalists who broke the story of Gibson’s con, leading to her conviction.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2025
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“Loosely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loosely. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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