: of or relating to just one individual: such as
a
: consisting of only one individual
a one-man committee
b(1)
: done, presented, or produced by only one individual
a one-man stage play
(2)
: featuring the work of a single artist (such as a painter)
a one-man show of oils
c
: designed for or limited to one individual
Examples of one-man in a Sentence
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The Mark Taper has begun to offer some programming again (a return of Alex Edelman’s one-man show and a Michael Feinstein concert) and plans to announce a new season that its artistic director, Snehal Desai, says will focus heavily on weekends to accommodate the weakness in weekday attendance.
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Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Hagen starred in the one-man show, A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom, based on Doc Baker.
—Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
For the second consecutive year, the Scudetto race has been a one-man show: Last year, Napoli claimed the Serie A crown with multiple games to spare, while this year, table toppers Inter Milan are marching authoritatively toward their 20th league title.
—Daniele Proch, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
In recent years, Springsteen has revealed, via memoir and a one-man Broadway show, his struggles with depression, inherited from his factory-worker father.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
In Haiti, the militarized coercion of the Louverture era and its immediate successors coalesced into a pattern of one-man rule, even as the country’s development was hamstrung by punitive foreign debts.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The Brandeis Center, which started as a one-man operation, now has 13 litigators.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
He’s written it into a one-man show about his life.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
And whatever Putin’s efforts to spin things in his favor, Russia’s longer-term problems – demographic decline, the cost of war and sanctions, and the inherent brittleness of one-man rule – are not likely to disappear before Putin stands for a sixth term in office.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
Hagen starred in the one-man show, A Playful Dose of Prairie Wisdom, based on Doc Baker.
—Melissa Girimonte, Peoplemag, 30 Mar. 2024
For the second consecutive year, the Scudetto race has been a one-man show: Last year, Napoli claimed the Serie A crown with multiple games to spare, while this year, table toppers Inter Milan are marching authoritatively toward their 20th league title.
—Daniele Proch, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
In recent years, Springsteen has revealed, via memoir and a one-man Broadway show, his struggles with depression, inherited from his factory-worker father.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2024
In Haiti, the militarized coercion of the Louverture era and its immediate successors coalesced into a pattern of one-man rule, even as the country’s development was hamstrung by punitive foreign debts.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
The Brandeis Center, which started as a one-man operation, now has 13 litigators.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024
He’s written it into a one-man show about his life.
—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
And whatever Putin’s efforts to spin things in his favor, Russia’s longer-term problems – demographic decline, the cost of war and sanctions, and the inherent brittleness of one-man rule – are not likely to disappear before Putin stands for a sixth term in office.
—Nathan Hodge, CNN, 18 Mar. 2024
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“One-man.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/one-man. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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