How to Use one in a Sentence
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Decisions made by engineers today, in other words, will determine not how one car drives but how all cars drive.
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Johannes Himmelreich,
BostonGlobe.com,
2018-03-30
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Disappearance is efficient because one disappearance can intimidate many opponents.
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Jason Scheideman,
Washington Post,
2017-05-09
- I'll be there at one.
- I don't have any ones. Can you break a five?
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No one wants to drill with you.
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Matthew Shen Goodman,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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Yeah, this was one of those ones.
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Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
7 Nov. 2025
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Like no one’s at fault here, right?
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Charna Flam,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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Like, the ones with the most teeth.
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Caroline Rose Giuliani,
New Yorker,
19 May 2026
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So who will be the ones to watch this year?
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Maggie Coughlan,
Vanity Fair,
12 May 2026
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But tight ones could take days or even weeks.
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Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2026
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Please, no one take this Ball home.
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Stan Son,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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No one will call you; no one will knock on your door.
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Elizabeth Palmer,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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That’e one out of 43 from six drafts.
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Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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This one was a gut punch very much on par with those.
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Noah Trister,
Baltimore Sun,
29 Mar. 2026
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Just know that this one is… not for the faint of heart.
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James Factora,
Them.,
26 Sep. 2025
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Now my kid is six years old and no one cares as much.
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Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2026
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Now they are bound in a way no one would ask to be.
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Brit McCandless Farmer,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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This one had a little edge to it.
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C.j. Holmes,
New York Daily News,
8 Mar. 2026
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No one knows what was going on.
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Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
7 Nov. 2025
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That one was just a little down.
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Gabrielle Starr,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
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What sort of story was this one?
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Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
21 Apr. 2026
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No one was walking near the door.
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Julia Bonavita , Stepheny Price , Peter D'abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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This one blows them out of the water.
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Melinda Salchert,
Southern Living,
3 Oct. 2025
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No one has ever even opened that book.
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Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
8 Feb. 2026
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No one is being forced to go there.
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Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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For the ones who light up the room—stars and stones are a must.
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Afia Asamoah,
InStyle,
1 July 2026
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Either one is for the rule of law or not.
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Letters To The Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
1 Feb. 2026
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Some of the movies were truly great ones.
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Joy Williams,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Want more stories like this one?
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Nate Jones,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Still, no one counted her out even then.
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Andrew Dampf,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Still, no one counted her out even then.
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Andrew Dampf,
Arkansas Online,
9 Feb. 2026
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Again, no one has done this in real life.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
22 Mar. 2026
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