as in independently
without aid or support
the team's star slugger hit three home runs, effectively winning the game single-handedly
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Build Safety Through Regulation, Not Just Reflection Understanding your attachment style can bring powerful insight but insight alone doesn’t rewire your patterns.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025 -
In an empty warehouse somewhere, McKenna leaves Stabler alone with Vincent Mathis, Emery’s thug.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
12 June 2025
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The battle royale between the world’s most powerful man and its richest inhabitant appears to be mostly over, save for some residual skirmishing on the social media platforms separately owned by Trump and Musk.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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The justices also separately reined in orders seeking transparency at DOGE, the team once led by billionaire Elon Musk.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
7 June 2025
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The Coliseum has shifted the tournament to the west coast for the first time after games previously were played solely in Dallas, the hub of American cricket, and a small ground in Morrisville, North Carolina.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2025
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Romantic comedies have always existed almost solely for pleasure’s sake—that’s what’s great about them.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
13 June 2025
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“Single-handedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/single-handedly. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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