single-handedly

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But posterity will almost certainly remember Monday as the “Wemby game,” in which the 22-year-old Frenchman single-handedly dismantled one of the greatest teams, statistically, that the NBA has ever seen.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

That said, Tavernier was often dragging Rangers through difficult times near single-handedly.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

“Today’s plunge in the oil market should single-handedly shave off $0.45/gallon, implying the national average pulling back to around $3.70,” Molchanov wrote.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

AI startup worker Sigrid Jin, who attended the Seoul dinner, single-handedly used 25 billion of Claude Code tokens last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026

“My brother, Eugene, almost single-handedly finances that church. Lovely church.”

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie