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[sing-gyuh-ler] / ˈsɪŋ gjə lər /




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"Kylie really extends beyond fashion, beyond culture, beyond TV, beyond one singular thing," he adds.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Revisit some of the show’s best jingles and parodies, appreciate Alec Baldwin’s singular performance as Jack Donaghy, and test your memory with this quiz.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The Criterion Collection’s mammoth set of the director’s 13 features captures a master of American cinema and his singular stories of men caught up in systems bigger than themselves.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Swain said there’s not a particular singular moment of arrival.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Many words that mean a group of things—total, majority, and number, for example—can be singular or plural.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Mike Evans, Geisinger’s chief pharmacy officer, said clinicians deal in singulars.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2018

The stylebook entry retains the old advice to try to write around the problem, perhaps by changing singulars to plurals, before using the singular they as a last resort.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2015

And there are what we call "singulars," which are those creations on bread that falls outside these other groups but are still vital to the sandwich landscape, like the muffuletta.

From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2015

In the meantime, when you do use stand-ins for singulars, get them right.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

Plural words are often treated as singulars in quantities and measurements of things like these: • Money: Bernice says $4 is too much for a cup of coffee.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner


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