single-handedly
Example Sentences
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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
Velazco’s claim is impossible to verify, though he believes he is single-handedly reviving the practice of making palm liquor out of tuba in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
But posterity will almost certainly remember Monday as the “Wemby game,” in which the 22-year-old Frenchman single-handedly dismantled one of the greatest teams, statistically, that the NBA has ever seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
Then the music falls away and Akylas sings directly to his mum, who raised him single-handedly during Greece's financial crisis.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
But mainly it’s the way they’re so damned self-important, like they’d single-handedly stopped the dead at the Mason-Dixon Line or some nonsense.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
