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one

[wuhn] / wʌn /


NOUN
unspecified individual
Synonyms
STRONGEST


PRONOUN
a person or thing of a number or kind indicated
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


Example Sentences

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The names for aldehyde and ketone compounds are derived using similar nomenclature rules as for alkanes and alcohols, and include the class-identifying suffixes -al and -one, respectively:

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Others in the courtroom acted like they were at a matinee -one afternoon a couple sat in the second row, listening to the proceedings, and cuddled.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2019

This would be a big reversal – -one that would require a very large standing military.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2016

Others thought they would never see the day that in conservative Idaho -one of the most Republican-dominated states in the nation- same-sex marriage would be legalized.

From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2014

Renn came after him, backing out on hands and knees and dragging two hazelwood packs -one of them his own.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver




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