as in single
operating or standing on its own
The device can be purchased either as a stand-alone unit or as part of a bundled system. The rental property is a stand-alone guesthouse.
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Recent Examples of stand-alone
The county’s architectural and theatrical consultants concluded that the playhouse’s front building — which at various points housed the playhouse lobby, restaurants, offices and, on the third floor, apartments for visiting artists — should be renovated as a stand-alone structure.
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
What’s even better: Residential solar power mimics a stand-alone power plant, one that need never be built.
—Andrew Carpenter, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Marcie Rendon, enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, playwright, author of stand-alone novels and the Cash Blackbear crime series, gives the keynote address at this 15th annual festival, in conversation with Normandale English instructor and author Lynette Reini-Grandell.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
How will the need to adapt affect communities with single-family, stand-alone homes?
—James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2025
What’s even better: Residential solar power mimics a stand-alone power plant, one that need never be built.
—Andrew Carpenter, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2025
Marcie Rendon, enrolled member of the White Earth Nation, playwright, author of stand-alone novels and the Cash Blackbear crime series, gives the keynote address at this 15th annual festival, in conversation with Normandale English instructor and author Lynette Reini-Grandell.
—Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
How will the need to adapt affect communities with single-family, stand-alone homes?
—James Barron, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stand-alone
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Each plane has four single suites and four side-by-side suites, two of each at the front of each business class cabin.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Read: The climate action that the world needs The Great Derangement By Amitav Ghosh Category Five, by Porter Fox The ocean, Earth’s biggest absorber of carbon and heat, is the largest single player in the climate crisis.—
Heather Hansman,
The Atlantic,
22 Apr. 2025
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The new project is completely separate from the 2020 attempt to reboot Clueless for Peacock.—
Daniel S. Levine,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Adams, who was 30 at the time, was living in a converted studio apartment on her parents’ property separate from the main house in Ocala, according to an arrest affidavit filed by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Rather than discrete events with a beginning, a middle, and an end, wars might be better understood as the result of poor and dysfunctional political relations that are difficult to manage by nonviolent means.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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None of these notebooks' integrated graphics comes within miles of a gaming laptop's discrete GPU.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
13 Apr. 2025
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Out back, there’s a sleek new pool and detached garage, primed for conversion.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
18 Apr. 2025
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The report further indicates that there was one dead rodent in the attached garage, and across the three detached garages, investigators encountered one live rodent, one dead rodent, one nest, and one building with gnaw marks.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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In 2022, a consortium of private retirement-plan providers announced a collaboration to boost the portability of small retirement accounts.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
20 Apr. 2025
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Limonite Av Eval Fire has been burning on private land.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacbee.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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“Stand-alone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stand-alone. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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