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How to pronounce loosened in American English

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  1. Broader conditions have loosened this year.

    Federal Reserve

  2. of five decades has loosened its grip.

    The Obama White House

  3. fragments of rock shattered and loosened by the upheaval of the explosion.

    National Archives

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