onetime
Example Sentences
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“I live with many regrets and sincerely apologize to anyone I may have hurt through my actions,” said the onetime mogul, pale and sitting in a wheelchair.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The onetime Calvin Klein model had checked into the facility just hours before, around 10 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
David Axelrod, the former president’s onetime chief strategist, called it “gratuitous and unnecessary.”
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
A little over a half-decade later, the onetime crucible of downtown cool sold for more than $2 billion to the parent company of Vans and North Face; the brand equity that “Cherry” contributed was incalculable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sam and Joe had become the schools roaming tech support, a rapidly spreading phenomenon among geeks as hard-pressed and technophobic school districts turned to their onetime social outcasts to help run their computer systems.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
