Examples of loosen

• Once that tie is loosened, anything can be brought in.

• The criteria for private preemption should be loosened in appropriate, limited cases.

• The bootstrap allows inferences to be made directly from the actual data, while loosening the parametric assumptions that may not hold in a particular case.

• Nailed either to small hand cards, or to large cylinders in carding machines, this process loosened matted wool without combing it straight.

• All the other links in the middle are now loosened and will fall.

• To offer an example, if a person's mental health stability is questioned, their credibility is loosened.

• He also loosened the rules governing authorization for investigations and their duration.

• Eligibility criteria have been loosened and coverage increased so as to accommodate older workers with limited prospects of reemployment.