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Flagg Miller calls it an audacious attempt to mobilize the loosely-knit jihadist movement.
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Flagg Miller calls it an audacious attempt to mobilize the loosely-knit jihadist movement.
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The Catholic church isn't some loosely-knit hippie commune.
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The Catholic church isn't some loosely-knit hippie commune.
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Family groups mix with family groups to form loosely-knit but gregarious flocks sharing territories and food supplies.
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Since 2007, a growing wave of protests has rocked the south, with the loosely-knit Southern Movement now demanding secession.
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This year, many teachings and practices of the Church of Scientology have been exposed, highlighted and protested by a loosely-knit group of group called Anonymous:
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Family groups mix with family groups to form loosely-knit but gregarious flocks sharing territories and food supplies.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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When I was a fifteen year old in 1973, my mother took me to the Nixon counter-inaugural in Washington, D.C., sporting a button that read "Another Mother for Peace," a loosely-knit group of anti-war mothers from coast to coast.
Steven Petrow: Last Week's Gay-Bashing at the Polls: A Call to Action 2009
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Did they just pick characters and subplots and tease them out of the story like a colored thread in a loosely-knit yarn scarf?
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