Synonyms for on the loose
on the loose

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1. at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p)adjective

   having escaped, especially from confinement

   "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

   Antonyms:
   unfree

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1. Ian Jepson:

   I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread.

2. T. S. Eliot:

   Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion…

3. Lynda Vanartsdalen:

   It was just a perfect California day, then all hell broke loose, now every time I hear of another school shooting, my heart breaks. I know the pain and the hurt and the struggle they will go through for years to come.

4. Chet Nagle:

   That system has been excruciatingly tested, successfully, at White Sands, against simulated targets, real targets, and it does the job it was designed to do, they'll fix it whatever it is. And the fact that you have a test aircraft crash, or an aerostat break loose, doesn't invalidate the system.

5. Micah Sifry:

   He is definitely a loose cannon in terms of how he uses his Twitter account, at the same time, he hasn’t been hurt by it yet because apparently a big chunk of what he’s saying is popular among Republican voters.