Synonyms for loosened
loos·ened

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1. disentangled, loosened, unsnarledadjective

   straightened out

   Synonyms:
   disentangled, unsnarled

   Antonyms:
   tangled

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1. List of paraphrases for "loosened":

   relaxed, eased

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How to say loosened in sign language?

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How to use loosened in a sentence?

1. Van Hollen:

   They gradually loosened up his telephone privileges over time.

2. Joe Zhou:

   During the fourth quarter, we saw an increase in trading volume as more people entered the property market after the government loosened policies, we expect this trend to continue.

3. Charlotte Brontë:

   Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

4. John Bodenhamer:

   To see that we have six or seven grandstands that have gone up in the last couple of weeks, it’s pretty remarkable. ’’ While happy to have a crowd, USGA officials can only shake their heads at the timing. On Tuesday, California loosened its COVID-19 restrictions, allowing the Los Angeles Dodgers to play Tuesday before more than 50,000 fans, which is about the number of tickets usually sold for a normal Open round. John Bodenhamer said there simply was n’t enough time to revamp the plan and add capacity to Torrey Pines once it became clear that restrictions would be lifted. `` I had the question earlier today, why do n’t you have 30,000, 40,000 people ?

5. Capital Economics:

   Both fiscal and monetary policy have been loosened over the past few months and this should start to feed through to the real economy by the second half of this year.