one-woman
adjective
: done, performed, or controlled by one woman
a one-woman job/show/play/business
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Between Hadley and Presley, Jeremy and Anders, Link and his crew, and Gabi’s one-woman mission to take down Sam, can the bunker hold up under all this pressure?
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
Notably, Erivo is currently treating London’s West End to her ambitious one-woman Dracula show, her first new project following the Oscar-winning, billion-dollar-grossing Wicked films.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2026
That one-woman show turned Emmy magnet is a high bar to set for oneself, and in adapting her own debut novel as a Netflix limited series, creator Julia May Jonas doesn’t clear it.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
The film opens as Mabel, (barely) attending the local university in her hometown Beaverton, stages a one-woman campaign against the construction of a high-speed rail ordered by smarmy mayor Jerry (Jon Hamm, perfect for this), as a bid to guarantee his reelection.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
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Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
Notably, Erivo is currently treating London’s West End to her ambitious one-woman Dracula show, her first new project following the Oscar-winning, billion-dollar-grossing Wicked films.
—Kyle Denis, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2026
That one-woman show turned Emmy magnet is a high bar to set for oneself, and in adapting her own debut novel as a Netflix limited series, creator Julia May Jonas doesn’t clear it.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026
The film opens as Mabel, (barely) attending the local university in her hometown Beaverton, stages a one-woman campaign against the construction of a high-speed rail ordered by smarmy mayor Jerry (Jon Hamm, perfect for this), as a bid to guarantee his reelection.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 2 Mar. 2026
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“One-woman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-woman. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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