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Recent Examples of one-two
January may be a bit sleepy, but HBO Max is trying its best to supplement with a one-two punch of returning seasons of The Pitt and Industry.
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
All-around play from top scorers is lacking Kevin Fiala and Adrian Kempe are one-two on the team in goals.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
The pair of midweek storm systems delivered a one-two punch, with the colder second wave system bringing widespread rain, lower snow levels and hazardous travel conditions, especially across the northern and eastern regions.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2026
The company presented a significant one-two punch—procedure volume growth of 20% year-over-year across its da Vinci and Ion systems, significantly surpassing management’s own guidance, paired with an uptick in system placements to 427 da Vinci units in Q3.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2026
All-around play from top scorers is lacking Kevin Fiala and Adrian Kempe are one-two on the team in goals.
—Eric Stephens, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
The pair of midweek storm systems delivered a one-two punch, with the colder second wave system bringing widespread rain, lower snow levels and hazardous travel conditions, especially across the northern and eastern regions.
—Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2026
The company presented a significant one-two punch—procedure volume growth of 20% year-over-year across its da Vinci and Ion systems, significantly surpassing management’s own guidance, paired with an uptick in system placements to 427 da Vinci units in Q3.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-two
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Aaron Gordon reinjured his right hamstring late in the first half, the latest blow to a Nuggets team that has been inching closer to full health.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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That was a blow to a Red Sox team that struggled to score runs during its three-game loss to the Yankees in their Wild Card series.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Here’s where naming a Wall Street pro who’s a master of spotting where danger’s building may prove a hedge against a future calamity.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
28 Jan. 2026
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What Trump is most certainly reviewing is the viability of Noem as a Cabinet secretary, who has rapidly become a scapegoat for the predictable calamities of the high-visibility deployment of border guards as SWAT troops in urban centers.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
27 Jan. 2026
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One compelling example in the education space that Parker-Holder and Rivas described was allowing students to get a sense of what working in different professions might be like, such as assisting in disaster recovery.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
30 Jan. 2026
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The action also authorizes the use of disaster emergency funds and allows the OEM to mobilize state resources, make contracts and awards using emergency procurement procedures and encumber and expend funds as determined by the director of the OEM.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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While that’s less than Monday’s 6,100 cancellations and Sunday’s 11,600—the most since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic—airlines could face further disruptions as another arctic blast looms later this week.—
Jordan Erb,
Bloomberg,
27 Jan. 2026
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Most of them were in the South, where weekend blasts of freezing rain caused tree limbs and power lines to snap, inflicting crippling outages on northern Mississippi and parts of Tennessee.—
Russ Bynum,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2026
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Plan on a double whammy of inconvenient rain and much cooler temperatures.—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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Some area restaurants faced a double whammy, closing and reopening their doors in the span of months or weeks.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
30 Dec. 2025
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“One-two.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-two. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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