Loosely
Loosely adverb - Knitted in a loose manner.
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Resembling and loosely are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Resembling" instead an adverb "Loosely".
Resembling
Resembling adjective - Having qualities in common.
Loosely and resembling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Loosely" instead an adverb "Resembling".
Nearby Words: resemblance, resembled
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- B:TBaTB very loosely took a 2000 Superman story arc of a Mad God Emperor resembling The Joker and made it the Caped Crusader's own story in 2010.
Source: Adaptation Distillation -
Slightly subverted in the fact that the Bible itself contains no mention of anyone remotely resembling The Little Drummer Boy; It started as a song in 1949, based loosely off a French legend only two centuries older than that.
- MechWarrior 4 simply had every destroyed Mech spew streams of blue-white light from its core as it fell, before exploding into chunky rubble loosely resembling the original chassis.
Source: Going Critical
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