How to Use at once in a Sentence
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My impulse to wear two tanks at once didn’t come out of nowhere.
—Emma Childs, Glamour, 17 July 2026
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Those ideas didn't all get built at once, and some will never be built.
—Lior Weinstein, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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All eight episodes of the first season will be released at once.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 July 2026
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The design attempts to serve both sides of the transaction at once.
—Arthur Zackiewicz, Footwear News, 14 July 2026
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That helps explain why the sale’s final tally tells two stories at once.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2026
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This means that shooting down a small drone with three bullets at once is much easier than with one.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 July 2026
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There was too much change happening at once—a new house, a new baby sister, and now a new school.
—Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 20 July 2026
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Software is now turning up against semis, against the tech sector, and against the whole market at once.
—Todd Gordon, CNBC, 8 July 2026
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Can any human being be a true friend to thousands or even millions of people at once?
—Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
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The goal is a space that feels collected over time rather than decorated all at once.
—Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026
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There’s also a lot of conversion work happening across the city all at once.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 8 July 2026
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What used to move through a narrow, validated funnel now flows through all at once.
—Matt Waxman, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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Then, real people start using it, and the trust issues surface at once.
—Saran Siva, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
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Suarez says the zoning plan would address several problems at once.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
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Because of superposition, a qubit can be zero, one or a mix of both at once.
—Aldo Romero, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
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Adopting every habit at once can feel overwhelming, Rovzar said.
—Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026
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Applying too much product across the entire eye at once can make the shape harder to control.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 24 July 2026
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One that can read very long segments of DNA at once is necessary.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
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France were controlled and devastating all at once; rarely at risk but always a menace.
—Thom Harris, New York Times, 30 June 2026
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Instead, a particle of light explores every path available to it at once.
—Aldo Romero, The Conversation, 15 July 2026
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You can easily get pulled in too many directions and try to implement too many strategies at once.
—Avery Carl, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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The United States holds both at once, working the longer year and wringing more from every hour of it.
—Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
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To help create a home that feels at once timeless and relevant, taking a forward look at home design trends is key.
—Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026
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Their power is cumulative, because an attacker has to beat all of them at once.
—Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
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Expertise is expensive, slow to train and impossible to be in two places at once.
—Srini Attili, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
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As anyone sentient during the early aughts will tell you, wearing multiple tops at once isn’t new.
—Emma Childs, Glamour, 17 July 2026
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Rather than chucking the entire function at the agent all at once, start incrementally.
—Thenuka Karunaratne, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
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Large bottles and restaurant servings can easily provide two or three servings at once.
—Verywell Health, 20 July 2026
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Maybe two or three groups of hoaxers out there at once, bumping into each other in the dark and scaring the scales off one another.
—Star-Telegram Staff, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 10 July 2026
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All of these gains accumulate gradually, rather than at once.
—Daniel Yue, Fortune, 14 July 2026
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