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Six example sentences with loosening, each labelled with its topic.
A gradual loosening of credit followed the rate cut, and small builders started breaking ground again by spring.
Economics
Three weeks of daily hanging produced a real loosening through the shoulders, and overhead presses stopped pinching.
Fitness
The loosening of party discipline showed in the vote, where nineteen members crossed the aisle without warning their whips.
Politics
A loosening of the dress code brought sneakers into the office, and productivity stayed exactly where it had been.
Business
The loosening of zoning rules allowed corner shops in residential streets for the first time in fifty years.
Law
The loosening of censorship in the 1860s let newspapers print debates that a decade earlier would have closed them.
History
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