single-handed
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His mother, who worked in a furniture store, brought him up single-handed.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
He managed to accomplish virtually nothing: Almost none of his promises for single-handed economic revitalization, world domination, or intrepid urban crime-solving panned out.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2024
Born Maria Anna Sophie Cecilia Kalogeropoulos in New York in December 1923 to Greek parents, Callas was credited with the almost single-handed revival of the Italian bel canto vocal technique.
From Reuters ● Oct. 25, 2023
Interestingly, in an article Orwell wrote in 1940, he pinpoints the core of this strategy, writing that the manipulator portrays himself as a martyr, a victim, the "self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds."
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2023
“You’d think he was running a whole fleet of ships, single-handed, to hear her take on.”
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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