single-handedly

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His match-winning century against Pakistan on Tuesday will go down as the finest innings of the 27-year-old's white-ball career because it single-handedly took his side into a fifth successive T20 World Cup semi-final.

From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026

He listed Shane Williams as someone who single-handedly kept the Ospreys in so many games, and without whom, Wales wouldn't have won Grand Slams in 2005 or 2008.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026

Against Canada, the Americans’ biggest competition for a gold medal, Murphy single-handedly managed to draw four penalties, driving the Canadians absolutely crazy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Well, who was single-handedly responsible for coarsening the discourse at the Supreme Court for a very long time?

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

Working on a navy contract quietly and virtually single-handedly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lawrence’s former graduate student Philip Abelson had perfected a way of enriching uranium by thermal diffusion.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik