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Recent Examples of one-way
Black holes have an event horizon, an invisible one-way boundary at their edge that not even light is fast enough to escape.
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Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2025
Forbes Avenue and the south half of the road circling the square will remain open to one-way vehicular traffic through the first phase of construction.
—Ryan Deto, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Nonstop Airline: Allegiant Airport: Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport The flight leaves KCI at 9:17 p.m. June 21.
Atlanta from June 2-11
Cost: $140 for a one-way flight
Direct or nonstop?
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025
Audience engagement is no longer a one-way street, and those who integrate that fact into their strategy will reap the rewards.
—Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2025
Forbes Avenue and the south half of the road circling the square will remain open to one-way vehicular traffic through the first phase of construction.
—Ryan Deto, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
Nonstop Airline: Allegiant Airport: Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport The flight leaves KCI at 9:17 p.m. June 21.
Atlanta from June 2-11
Cost: $140 for a one-way flight
Direct or nonstop?
—Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 1 Apr. 2025
Audience engagement is no longer a one-way street, and those who integrate that fact into their strategy will reap the rewards.
—Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
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Divisions at Home and Anxiety Abroad A growing chorus of House and Senate Republicans have called out Trump's trade policies and the unilateral way they were implemented.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Trump administration's plans include a unilateral 10% levy that took effect this weekend, as well as steeper tariffs on countries including China, Vietnam and Taiwan — nations that manufacture a significant number of devices and machine components for major U.S. tech companies.—
Pia Singh,
CNBC,
7 Apr. 2025
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In many ways, this was a good thing—being a one-man Swiss Army Knife was an effective way to learn a ton of different skills that would eventually help grow my business.—
Aytekin Tank,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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Kiser likes to wear them tight enough that removing them isn’t a one-man job.—
Pete Sampson,
New York Times,
27 Mar. 2025
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Even as sloppy or one-sided as Dawn’s subplots could be, Trachtenberg always transcended the material through her innate chemistry with Gellar.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
26 Feb. 2025
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Thursday night, a tie game after the first period turned one-sided in a hurry, as the Seattle Kraken scored four goals in less than six minutes and cruised to a 6-2 win at Climate Pledge Arena.—
Curtis Pashelka,
The Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2025
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Once data has gone into a public chatbot, there’s very little control over what happens to it, and there have been cases of personal data entered by one user being exposed in responses to other users.—
Bernard Marr,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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The benefits of using apple cider vinegar for sleep or taking it specifically at night are largely based on personal accounts rather than research.—
Johna Burdeos,
Health,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The singer-songwriter first announced the single in January 2024 with an audio excerpt posted on Instagram.—
Abigail Lee,
Variety,
11 Apr. 2025
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The single reached No. 3 on U.S. Afrobeats Songs and No. 4 on World Digital Song Sales.—
Heran Mamo,
Billboard,
10 Apr. 2025
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Well, that and transforming a deeply solitary hobby into something much more communal.—
Leila Herrmann,
Vogue,
9 Apr. 2025
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Of Kompany’s eight outfield substitutes on Tuesday, two — Lennart Karl and Jonah Kusi-Asare (both 17) have never played a Bundesliga or European minute for the club, and a third, Jonathan Asp (19) only has a solitary senior minute to his name.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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Conservatives typically treasure civic institutions as a storehouse of ancestral wisdom; those on the left have championed universal rights, individual freedoms and the vox populi.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
5 Apr. 2025
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This comes just a few days after Derrick White overtook Isaiah Thomas for the most individual threes in a season in Celtics’ franchise history.—
Shane Young,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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“One-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-way. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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