one-way

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Recent Examples of one-way Tickets for those 16 and older are $75 in the spring/fall for one-way travel and $150 for round trips. Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 6 Oct. 2025 Government leaders and local experts on transit agree one-way streets, which were intended to make travel faster for commuters heading in and out of downtown, present safety concerns. Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Oct. 2025 State leaders provided a lot in downtown Nashville to begin construction staging for the Loop, two one-way tunnels carrying passengers in Tesla sedans. Hadley Hitson, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025 Coming home, travelers should avoid the Sunday after Thanksgiving (November 30) and the Saturday after Christmas (December 27), when both fares average $850 one-way. Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 29 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for one-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
Adjective
  • Many of the president’s supporters have backed his moves to combat drug trade in the region, however, some Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, as well as many Democrats, have expressed concern over the president’s unilateral decisions.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Vought has frozen spending on projects across the country and floated the idea of cutting federal jobs, but Republican lawmakers had asked him to avoid layoffs and more unilateral budget cuts during the shutdown.
    Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike Call of Duty, where everyone is essentially their own one-man Rambo, there’s more to Battlefield than just sprinting around endlessly killing foes.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Shire also had time to guide U2 in their historic opening of the Sphere in Las Vegas and Bono in his live one-man show and Apple TV+ doc Stories of Surrender and David Byrne for the new A24 Imax release of Stop Making Sense.
    Claudia Rosenbaum, HollywoodReporter, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Franklin’s extremely one-sided contract is a perfect example.
    Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Israel has denied this and said the report is biased and one-sided.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The performance opened with Hoying singing live, adding a personal touch to the tribute.
    Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Every personal finance article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance products.
    Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • But with so much of that renewable generating technology also imported from a single country, there is a risk that one strategic geopolitical vulnerability is simply replaced with another.
    Andrew Saunders, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, the university didn't offer a single course on Puerto Ricans, Chicanos, Native Americans or Asian Americans, according to the report.
    Gina Lee Castro, jsonline.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In 2017 two computer scientists demonstrated that this paradox can explain the varied life strategies of slime molds, which can alternate between a solitary, nomadic life and a stationary colony.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Michael captured in every second of performance; shots of massive audiences; countless pictures of Michael in hospitals with sick children, with armies of police and in moments of solitary reflection.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • How did this happen so quickly, affect the individual American, and shape the national character?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • There’s no avoiding the fact that student environments overlap with the realities of sexuality and gender identity, nor is there any avoiding the fact that every individual experiences these things in their own way.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 15 Oct. 2025

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“One-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-way. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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