ONE-WAY Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

one-way

adjective

Definition of one-way

as in unilateral

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Recent Examples of one-way And to play the first half of the season as a guy going on vacation to get his head clear and play the second half of a season as a man buttoning up every aspect of his life in the event that this was a one-way trip. — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2026 Even after the team deliberately distorted the geometry, the one-way transport remained remarkably stable. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 1 Aug. 2026 His troops arrived at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Louisiana’s Fort Polk in April with 500 drones – including more than 225 one-way attack systems, many of which soldiers had built themselves – and learned some things along the way. — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026 Such growing disaffection is not a one-way street, with American approval of Britain dropping by 15% in the past five years. — Garret Martin, The Conversation, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for one-way

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Adjective

Compensation systems, transfer windows and roster rules would become terms of an agreement rather than unilateral restraints.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
The plan suggests voluntary fees for passage support, contrasting with Iran's desire for unilateral control and mandatory tolls.

— Güney Yıldız, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

Definition of unilateral

Adjective

But Bruce Wayne isn’t a boy anymore, and Batman can’t operate as a one-man judge, jury, and executioner.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 2 Aug. 2026
That honest job has, across four generations, fed prime ministers and paupers, cooked for the King and Queen, and quietly funded a one-man legal aid service for survivors of abuse.

— Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of one-man

Adjective

Erasmus emptied his bench in the third quarter and the fresh power showed in the increasingly one-sided scrums.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Unlike the Tribune, none of those outlets interviewed Benton’s accusers, leaving Welch to present a largely one-sided account.

— Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of one-sided

Adjective

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act means the court cannot order Meta to request children to submit personal data or be passively tracked online, even for age verification purposes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
Some travel essentials are simply non-negotiable, from a blackout eye mask for sleeping on the plane to a personal safety alarm for peace of mind.

— Hayley Domin, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of personal

Adjective

Analysts caution that the move from the Ohio class to the Virginia class is not a one-for-one trade, as a single Virginia-class sub will carry only about 26% of the missiles of an Ohio-class one.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Wiroon Supasingsiripreecha, head of the institute, said most of the victims suffered a single fatal gunshot wound to a vital area, including the chest or head.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of single

Adjective

The movie shot in 35mm film revisits the main character and setting of the director’s minimalist first feature, Freedom, that 25 years earlier chronicled a few days in the life of a solitary woodcutter in the remote Pampas mountains.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026
Harpman was writing in a different era, but the elegiac loneliness of her fiction anticipates our own solitary and screen-bound present.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of solitary

Adjective

The Emmy-winning actor has come forward as the individual Rhea Seehorn alluded to, but did not name, in a June Instagram post that revealed someone spilled wine on her at the Gotham TV Awards.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026
Rather than simply helping users generate individual slides, NextSlide turns fragmented information from documents, prompts, workplace context, and other sources into a polished, presentation-ready deck.

— Rachel Wells, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026

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