once-overs

plural of once-over

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for once-overs
Noun
  • The first two questions were about the investigations, and the third was about how great the games had been during the week.
    Andrew Marchand, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The Miami Heat and Portland Trail Blazers both won their first games since Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland head coach Chauncey Billups were arrested on Thursday in connection with two separate federal gambling investigations announced by the Eastern District of New York.
    Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Employers will receive support services such as employee needs assessments, feasibility and cost analysis studies, and business plan development.
    Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
  • More diverse studies with younger people are needed to determine the effects of step counts for other groups.
    Veronique Greenwood, Time, 21 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • These lessons also tended to focus on heroes and holidays rather than deeper explorations of understanding civics through multiple perspectives.
    Robert Maloy, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The novel intertwines elements of espionage with philosophical explorations of human history, environmentalism, and the complexities of identity and manipulation.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Challenge Our team started this research in summer 2023, when one of us, a space weather expert, spotted inconsistencies in space weather observations.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Nobody Wants This is a tougher case because its leads, Kristen Bell and Adam Brody, are just so charming and many of its observations about love and family are just so spot-on that weaker elements can get lost in the froth.
    Judy Berman, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Licensing officials also allow educators under investigation to forfeit their credentials in exchange for avoiding in-depth probes.
    Danielle DuClos, jsonline.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • More than 4 million members of the 99-million-strong party have faced probes, from the most junior to the highest ranking officials.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Once-overs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/once-overs. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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