one-way

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Strategy’s stock dropped Monday after the company disclosed a rare bitcoin sale, rattling investors who have long treated the company as a one-way bet on the cryptocurrency.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026

As usual throughout the competition, all pairs were banned from travelling by air and given a total budget at the start of £1,297 per person - the cost of a one-way plane ticket.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The Landline service costs $9 for a one-way ride and parking in Framingham will cost $7 a day.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

Fair warning, though: You won’t make it through this book without Googling the price of a one-way trip to Italy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

Griffith’s experiment may have stuffed genetics into a one-way taxicab and sent it scuttling toward a strange future—but Avery was reluctant to climb on that bandwagon.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee