single-handed
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A leitmotif of the book is the author’s slow discovery that the internet connection she needs to pull off the single-handed race impedes her ability to enjoy fully what she’s seeing and achieving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
If the single-handed backhand has been Wawrinka's signature shot, then this was his signature match.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
"I am the one who has been on a single-handed campaign to get Bridget Jones into the Criterion Collection."
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2025
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
Time after time, single-handed and on her hands and knees, she emptied all the cuspidors and scrubbed down the lobby of Grand Central Station.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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