1
as in only
being the one or ones of a class with no other members
that's the one author I would stand in line for hours to get an autograph from
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2
as in certain
known but not named
one person that I know said that it was the best movie he had ever seen
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Recent Examples of one
Holly J. Morris, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
My patients began to make different health choices and to question their prior ones almost as soon as the words were uttered.
—Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.
—Johannes Himmelreich, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Noun
This week, Jimmy Kimmel returned, a weird statue vanished and no one (to our knowledge) got snatched up to heaven.
—Holly J. Morris, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
My patients began to make different health choices and to question their prior ones almost as soon as the words were uttered.
—Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Drinkwater didn't make one appearance in a Chelsea shirt last season, whilst Bakayoko spent the season in Italy on loan at AC Milan.
—SI.com, 3 Aug. 2019
Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.
—Johannes Himmelreich, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for one
Noun
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The Arizona Supreme Court appeared willing to overturn the state's popular law requiring people who spend thousands of dollars to influence the outcome of elections to identify themselves.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Vietnam was soon reunited as a Communist country, exactly the outcome France, and then the United States, had spent thirty years and billions of dollars trying to prevent.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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CEOs and global leaders will gather for a dynamic, invitation-only event shaping the future of business.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
29 Sep. 2025
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All alone in a mind-bending prison, his only chance for escape is teamwork — with himself.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Some states have laws that require safe storage of guns at all times or in certain circumstances, such as living with someone under age 16 or someone who isn’t legally allowed to own or possess a gun.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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And faculty worry that teaching certain subject matter and texts might offend students and, if students complain, lead to administrative sanctions.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Overall, the ComMarker Omni X is one slick beast of a UV laser engraver for professionals that run trophy or custom engraving shops down to the regular ol' Joe Schmoe who's got a few bucks to spare ($4,599 of them, to be specific) and really likes to laser-engrave things.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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Russ steals some latex molds from his movie makeup artist father and transforms himself into Chad with a shaggy wig, a mustache, buck teeth and chin, lip and nose enhancements.—
Erin Clack,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The team’s lone major free-agent signing in the 2020s has backfired in spectacular fashion.—
Andy McCullough,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The drama follows Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) as a detective called in to investigate the 1987 massacre of four scientists brutally murdered in inexplicable ways, with a lone survivor the obvious suspect.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In writer-director Christian Ditter’s glossy take on the fantastical story about the preciousness of time, an enigmatic red-haired girl named Momo (Alexa Goodall) lives inside the amphitheater of an unnamed European city (perhaps closest in look to Rome).—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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The unnamed first-person protagonist, portrayed expressively by Golden Voice Narrator JD Jackson, wins a National Book Award.—
AudioFile Magazine
September 30,
Literary Hub,
30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Your [sic] anonymous as judges but your [sic] still music industry people.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
28 Sep. 2025
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Attorneys and leaders spoke, sometimes through tears, about Kirk — and how his death underscored the need to allow people to make anonymous donations to political campaigns.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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“One.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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