one-way

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Recent Examples of one-way Flights will run once per day on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, and one-way fares begin at $259. Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025 But the reluctance isn’t just one-way. Blane Bachelor, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025 This one-way hashing algorithm secures blockchain integrity and prevents tampering. Yuval Boger, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 Flights will run once per day on Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday, and one-way fares begin at $259. Katie Nadworny, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for one-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • In 2014, the Top Gun star was forced to cancel his one-man show after losing his voice, Kilmer revealed in the memoir.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The boisterous, flamboyant front man could often be mistaken for the ringleader of a one-man circus.
    Shana Naomi Krochmal, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Edwards was dominated and submitted in the fourth round by Sean Brady in a one-sided main event of a London crowd that was short on action.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Similarly, pausing attacks on energy infrastructure is clearly more advantageous to Russia, as is demilitarizing the Black Sea, given Russia’s dependence on the waterway and the Russian Navy’s extreme – and one-sided – vulnerability to Ukrainian attacks.
    Douglas Schoen, Orange County Register, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Rescuers used two fire boats, a helicopter and personal watercraft to look for the boy, as well as personnel on the beach, Guzman said.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 19 Apr. 2025
  • The Athletic recently obtained emails in which Hudson showed concern about fans attacking Belichick and his personal life.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The singer-songwriter first announced the single in January 2024 with an audio excerpt posted on Instagram.
    Abigail Lee, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Without a single source of truth, organizations struggle to make informed decisions, manage costs or build resilience in the face of unpredictability.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Well, that and transforming a deeply solitary hobby into something much more communal.
    Leila Herrmann, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Pathways on Google Cloud simplifies scaling beyond individual Ironwood Pods, allowing for the orchestration of hundreds of thousands of Ironwood chips for next-generation AI computational requirements.
    Maribel Lopez, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The federal government argues the states can adjust their individual budgets.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 14 Apr. 2025

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“One-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-way. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.

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