Lose or Loose?

Amelia Zimmerman
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2 min readApr 29, 2020

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Many people write loose when they actually mean lose, but these words have totally different meanings, and they actually sound different too.

To lose is a verb

To lose is a verb that means to be unable to find something (I’ve lost my phone), to lack something or stop having it (I’ve lost all motivation), to fail to win or take advantage of something (We lost the game and lost our chance at the

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Amelia Zimmerman
Write to Edit

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