once
Example Sentences
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Under long-standing legal principles, a juvenile who is sentenced to murder can ask for their minimum term to be reconsidered once they have served half of that time.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
What is changing is the scale: Work that once required teams of analysts is increasingly done by a single operator using AI, allowing governments to track far more people at far lower cost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
For me, the problem was that a bunch of expensive things happened at once, and I thought I could handle them.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
She says everyday activities that once came with substantial discomfort are now much easier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
More than once, I’d opened the storm cellar to the beckon of neon and the scent of buffalo stew.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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