as in single
operating or standing on its own
The device can be purchased either as a stand-alone unit or as part of a bundled system. The rental property is a stand-alone guesthouse.
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Recent Examples of stand-alone
Zoom out: The Flow Trip operates as a stand-alone business within Flow.
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Sara Fischer, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Eat at Minnesota’s must-visit international restaurants Courtesy of Explore Minnesota/Paul Vincent
Along with stand-alone restaurants, Minnesota’s food culture thrives in several singular food halls.
—AFAR Media, 11 Mar. 2025
Maybe Scorsese could even release the unabridged set as a stand-alone.
—Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
But the Trump administration’s plan was to take the CFPB down to the barest minimum staffing required under law: Just five CFPB employees would remain, either in a stand-alone office or folded into another regulatory body, the workers testified.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
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Sara Fischer, Axios, 11 Mar. 2025
Eat at Minnesota’s must-visit international restaurants Courtesy of Explore Minnesota/Paul Vincent
Along with stand-alone restaurants, Minnesota’s food culture thrives in several singular food halls.
—AFAR Media, 11 Mar. 2025
Maybe Scorsese could even release the unabridged set as a stand-alone.
—Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2025
But the Trump administration’s plan was to take the CFPB down to the barest minimum staffing required under law: Just five CFPB employees would remain, either in a stand-alone office or folded into another regulatory body, the workers testified.
—Hugh Son, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stand-alone
Adjective
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Murray’s collection of Junos includes back-to-back awards for both album of the year and single of the year for 1980-81.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Mar. 2025
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Loftis appeared in two games in 2024 as the third-string quarterback, not throwing a single pass, before hitting the portal and committing to Albin as a redshirt sophomore.—
Hunter Bailey,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Mar. 2025
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In a separate post to his Instagram story, Styles took one final bow.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2025
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Zwirner initially invested $5 million in Platform, incorporated as a separate entity under David Zwirner Digital LLC.—
Angelica Villa,
ARTnews.com,
13 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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One of the key approaches to simulating warehouse operations is based on employing discrete event simulation (DES) techniques and tools.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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William and his assistants were nonetheless able to build solid pillars of data, mass death broken down into discrete numerals to represent sexes, ages, locations, seasons, years, and causes of mortality, which included starvation, scurvy, dysentery, cholera, typhus, and relapsing fever.—
Fintan O'Toole,
The New Yorker,
10 Mar. 2025
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But even the most detached fan knows that getting to the podium requires a narrative, a story behind the story.—
Glenn Whipp,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 2025
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One adult who lives in the detached garage and six adults and three cats who live in an adjacent home were displaced by the fire, according to the post.—
Graeme Taskerud,
The Denver Post,
28 Feb. 2025
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Moreover, private innovative businesses cannot thrive or even survive for long without basic research at universities.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The content creator has since made her Instagram private and appears to have deactivated her TikTok (samstrays_somewhere) account.—
Becca Longmire,
People.com,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Stand-alone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stand-alone. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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