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on one's own

adjective as in single-handed

adverb as in single-handed

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Still, striking out on one’s own has its perks, and Larsen and Akturk remain committed to keeping Tiny Chef cooking as long as they can.

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In slower games, players can simultaneously play their opponent’s moves against a computer in a separate window, and software exists to show computer-recommended moves overlaid on one’s own games, which saves needed time in faster formats.

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And as in most medical dramas, there are big questions about life and death one might find disturbing depending on one’s own life and circumstances.

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After Mangal-arti, who had no formal medical or psychological training, told her she had borderline personality disorder, she said, she had begun to doubt her own instincts about even the most basic facts of her existence, doubts that reflected Hare Krishna teachings about not relying on one’s own emotions.

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As explained by the editor at the student newspaper The Stanford Review, “Drawing the line at any point other than conception is based purely on one’s own arbitrary standards, not objective principles …. Human life does not begin based at a point established by law, a Supreme Court case, or an individual’s opinion. Only one point can be true, and that point is conception.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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