as in occasional
happening only once
this offer is a one-shot deal; if you refuse, you won't get another chance
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Recent Examples of one-shot
Every director does this — finds locations and works with their department heads to build out the world, weighs in on all the visual choices that need to be made, helps guide the actors’ performances — but even more so in a one-shot series.
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
That Sunday in Cromwell, Fleetwood held a one-shot lead heading into the final hole.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
Rather than a one-shot solution, the WEHI scientists believe their transmission-blocking vaccine would become part of a multi-stage strategy to combat malaria that target the parasite in mosquitoes and human hosts.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
As tens of thousands of people participated at Gen Con in Indianapolis, the Fishers Event Center played host to Critical Role’s first one-shot set in the world of Exandria.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 30 July 2025
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Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2025
That Sunday in Cromwell, Fleetwood held a one-shot lead heading into the final hole.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Aug. 2025
Rather than a one-shot solution, the WEHI scientists believe their transmission-blocking vaccine would become part of a multi-stage strategy to combat malaria that target the parasite in mosquitoes and human hosts.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2025
As tens of thousands of people participated at Gen Con in Indianapolis, the Fishers Event Center played host to Critical Role’s first one-shot set in the world of Exandria.
—John Tufts, IndyStar, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-shot
Adjective
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In August 2023, Perez – a tourism official who manages the island’s biggest concert venue, the Coliseo – got a phone call from two producers for Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, the genre-bending Puerto Rican rapper, singer, actor and occasional professional wrestler better known as Bad Bunny.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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About the series This is the second this year in an occasional series on 2025 winners of the annual WaterSmart Landscape Contest, conducted in partnership with the San Diego County Water Authority.—
Caron Golden,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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Even one-off video game designs like the Zellbine from the PlayStation Dunbine role-playing game received a toy.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Training is not a one-off event at UCLH and this empowers staff to make the most of the technology.—
Katherine Fung,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“One-shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-shot. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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