single-handedly
Example Sentences
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“I think he may have single-handedly invented a new way to do literary events. I don’t know what to call it ... a literary roast?,”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
It's a fixture fraught with passion and rivalry - falling 40 years after Diego Maradona almost single-handedly dumped England out in the quarter-final stage in Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Haughty, hectoring and pleased with herself, she is single-handedly wrecking her hen-pecked husband Gavin’s lofty political ambitions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Lumen Technologies this month produced a YouTube mockumentary depicting Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer Ryan Asdourian single-handedly taking down all of its signage around Lumen Field in Seattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
The aptly named Savage proceeded single-handedly to upset Fiji’s balance of power.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
