one-woman
adjective
: done, performed, or controlled by one woman
a one-woman job/show/play/business
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Deadline then revealed that Netflix had scouted out Brian Watkins and Julia McDermott’s Weather Girl, an apocalyptic one-woman play about a Californian weather girl in meltdown that staged sold out shows to rave reviews at Edinburgh.
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
At 77, Plant is reaching new artistic heights with a one-woman, four-man band that repeatedly elevated the English singer-songwriter’s genre-blurring music with sensitivity, adventurous spirit and a pinpoint command of instrumental and vocal dynamics.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
In fact, while promoting her new Hulu series All’s Fair, Watts has been a one-woman inspo board for corporate chic.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2025
In many regards, Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus is a one-woman show.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
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Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 26 Nov. 2025
At 77, Plant is reaching new artistic heights with a one-woman, four-man band that repeatedly elevated the English singer-songwriter’s genre-blurring music with sensitivity, adventurous spirit and a pinpoint command of instrumental and vocal dynamics.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Nov. 2025
In fact, while promoting her new Hulu series All’s Fair, Watts has been a one-woman inspo board for corporate chic.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 15 Nov. 2025
In many regards, Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus is a one-woman show.
—Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
See All Example Sentences for one-woman
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“One-woman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-woman. Accessed 6 Dec. 2025.
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