singular
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“Everybody to Kenmure Street” is the ultimate what-did-I-miss movie, a life-affirming corrective, his respectful curiosity and everyone’s cherished memories in singular harmony.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
And yet, along the Cannery Row of his Nobel-winning contemporaries—Hemingway, Faulkner, Pearl Buck—John Steinbeck retains a singular and very American claim to fame: his movies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“This union of artistry and vision transformed the property into a singular masterpiece, embodying the glamour and creative force of Hollywood’s Golden Age,” the description added.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
That’s because Evenepoel, a favorite to win a second road cycling world championship here on Sunday, seems almost lab-designed for the singular purpose of slicing through air on two wheels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
The American Dialect Society chooses the singular gender-neutral pronoun they as their Word of the Year.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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
In the meantime, when you do use stand-ins for singulars, get them right.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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Language and Grammar - Introductory
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