sin·gle-hand·ed
ˌsiŋ-gəl-ˈhan-dəd 
1
: managed or done by one person or with one on a side
2
: working alone or unassisted by others
single-handedly
adverb
: in a single-handed manner
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Examples of single-handed in a Sentence
Adverb
she was adamant that if she was expected to do the project single-handed, she should not have to share the credit afterward
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Fritz kicked his first serve into Evans’s single-handed backhand to devastating effect, rather than just hitting his usual flat rippers.
—James Hansen, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
The company additionally states that a single-handed brake application using IBS results in as much as a 40% shorter braking distance than a rear-brake-only stop on a non-IBS bike.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
At first, the team found that 60% of the crystals were single-handed.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
This created a crystalline seed that caused additional like-handed RAOs to bind, eventually forming pure single-handed RAO crystals, the researchers reported last week in Science Advances.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 13 June 2023
The Messer is a weapon often used in single-handed competitions.
—Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2023
Nothing against lipsticks and mascaras and blushes, but there really is no one makeup product that can make more of a single-handed difference than concealer.
—Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
In a preprint paper published online today, OpenAI has managed to teach its robot hand to solve a much more difficult version of in-hand cube manipulation: single-handed solving of a 3x3 Rubik’s cube.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2019
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Adjective
Weighted base for stability and single-handed charger placement.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
Fritz kicked his first serve into Evans’s single-handed backhand to devastating effect, rather than just hitting his usual flat rippers.
—James Hansen, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
The company additionally states that a single-handed brake application using IBS results in as much as a 40% shorter braking distance than a rear-brake-only stop on a non-IBS bike.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
At first, the team found that 60% of the crystals were single-handed.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
This created a crystalline seed that caused additional like-handed RAOs to bind, eventually forming pure single-handed RAO crystals, the researchers reported last week in Science Advances.
—Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 13 June 2023
The Messer is a weapon often used in single-handed competitions.
—Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 3 May 2023
Nothing against lipsticks and mascaras and blushes, but there really is no one makeup product that can make more of a single-handed difference than concealer.
—Melanie Rud, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
Adverb
Elinor’s single-handed battle against the coldblooded gang is tied to this novel’s timely theme: how men have always underestimated women and how women have used that to their advantage.
—Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
In a preprint paper published online today, OpenAI has managed to teach its robot hand to solve a much more difficult version of in-hand cube manipulation: single-handed solving of a 3x3 Rubik’s cube.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2019
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“Single-handed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/single-handed. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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