Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for unloosen
Verb
  • Idaho’s 1-to-6 ratio for infants remains in place, but the ratios were loosened for all older children.
    Rachel Cohen, Vox, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Compliance Gets Hyperlocal There is a tendency when reading headlines about sweeping changes to major regulatory initiatives to look only at the top-line effects — federal regulation is loosening — and the assumption that this will make compliance less burdensome.
    Mary Foley, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • As a result, players are rewarded for playing well by earning more AP and being able to unleash flashier special attacks.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The games at the Coliseum should be high-octane with the Unicorns set to unleash a squad brimming with youthful talent.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • But in 2010, Bernanke proposed something much more far-reaching: an initiative to disburse interest-free loans to major banks to unloose new tranches of cash throughout the economy.
    Chris Lehmann, The New Republic, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In a long, cozy sequence in the season’s first episode, Sam cooks breakfast for her sleeping household, sizzling sausage and frying eggs in a private ritual that’s best appreciated before her daughters rise and unloose chaos.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
Verb
  • Lyle and Erik Menendez -- who are serving life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 1989 murders of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez -- are fighting to be released after 35 years behind bars.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Marcelle Bacchus, McAlmont's aunt, said in an April 11 Facebook post that the victim's body was supposed to be released from a mortuary on April 10 but was not released due to a spelling error with his name.
    Audrey Conklin, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2025
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“Unloosen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unloosen. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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