1
as in selected
to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities
she quickly singled out the most qualified candidate from the pool of the applicants
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2
as in identified
to find out or establish the identity of
through careful reasoning and the process of elimination, neighbors singled her out as the writer of the anonymous letter
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Verb
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Officers made contact with the suspect, now identified as McMichaels.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Apr. 2025 -
That victim has since been identified by local media as 19-year-old Akeela Clarke, a female Walmart employee.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Enslaved Black people were banned from reading and writing and even those who had their freedom couldn't always access formal schooling, so African Americans began founding colleges of their own.—
Deborah Barfield Berry,
USA Today,
20 June 2025
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Walmart, headquartered in Bentonville, founded the festival with inclusion in mind.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 June 2025
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“Singled (out).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singled%20%28out%29. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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