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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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Khamenei said several times in recent years that America's unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear deal is a proof that the U.S. can't be trusted and that there is no point in holding negotiations with America.—
Barak Ravid,
Axios,
28 Mar. 2025
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And legal experts have noted that the unilateral transfer of the federal student loan system to another federal agency via executive action may violate federal law.—
Adam S. Minsky,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 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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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
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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
Adjective
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Secured to the back panel via three sliding screws and a single (knurled) fixing screw, each of the drive bays is individually removable.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
29 Mar. 2025
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The girl responded that the issue is that every single video has her in it.—
Karen Fratti,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Paving the way for the franchise, the first story begins with a solitary ogre living in a swamp, whose life is disrupted when a horde of misfit fairy-tale creatures are exiled to his land by the villainous Lord Farquaad (played by John Lithgow).—
Jane LaCroix,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
28 Mar. 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 11 Apr. 2025.
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