stand-alone

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Recent Examples of stand-alone For this expression, Buzzard’s Roost leveraged its proprietary double oak approach to craft a bourbon that pairs perfectly with both a fine cigar and as an exceptional stand-alone pour. Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2025 Current Department of Labor (DOL) guidance[4] doesn’t support offering private markets as a stand-alone investment option, meaning participants are unlikely to see a private equity or private credit fund listed alongside core menu options like an S&P 500 index or small-cap fund. Rick Unser, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 Language to authorize a resolution creating the select subcommittee was tucked into a procedural rule vote teeing up consideration of other measures, rather than as a stand-alone bill. Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Sep. 2025 In others, riders must use the company's stand-alone Waymo One app to book a robotaxi. Lora Kolodny, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for stand-alone
Recent Examples of Synonyms for stand-alone
Adjective
  • Those numbers are rough estimates, because they are based on a single observation.
    Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • At a 12% marginal tax rate, for example, the $6,000 deduction for a single taxpayer who is 65 or older would result in $720 in tax savings.
    Susan Tompor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the end, Sutton-Schulman won the Triangle Springs appeal, but Highmark classified L’s treatment at Menninger as two separate admissions.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Luna's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets was established in February 2025 and is a separate House Oversight subcommittee from the one that last held a hearing on UFOs in November.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The lens includes discrete rings to set its zoom and manually adjust focus, along with an AF/MF toggle switch and a zoom lock that keeps the lens set at 20mm.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
  • To fully unlock the potential of the discrete R2R ladder, the K13 R2R brings together an FPGA + DSP system that takes care of the digital signal processing, clocking and oversampling.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Due to his austere and detached manner, he is known to immediately inspire awe in his patients.
    Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The relevance of The Lord is impossible to ignore, especially in the character of a British journalist, who is extremely detached and mercenary.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The executives were able to meet with Pope Leo in a private audience that included others, according to a person familiar with the matter.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers in venture capital and private equity.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Stand-alone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stand-alone. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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