singular
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All of this legal drama is over a singular congressional seat.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Scale-up networking connects several processors together to work as a singular, more powerful chip.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lynch’s affection for the city and its singular luminance emanates from the intimate prints documenting its otherwise overlooked corners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mr. Threadgill, who plays alto saxophone and flute and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, first assembled this band 25 years ago to further a compositional strategy that is singular and yet invites improvised collaboration.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
He could leave office in the knowledge that his discredited policies and singular style had worked.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Mike Evans, Geisinger’s chief pharmacy officer, said clinicians deal in singulars.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 1, 2018
The stylebook entry retains the old advice to try to write around the problem, perhaps by changing singulars to plurals, before using the singular they as a last resort.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 4, 2015
And there are what we call "singulars," which are those creations on bread that falls outside these other groups but are still vital to the sandwich landscape, like the muffuletta.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2015
See page 53 for more about there with singulars and plurals. though/alt hough.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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Plural words are often treated as singulars in quantities and measurements of things like these: • Money: Bernice says $4 is too much for a cup of coffee.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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