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one

[wuhn] / wʌn /


NOUN
unspecified individual
Synonyms
STRONGEST


PRONOUN
a person or thing of a number or kind indicated
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK


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When his character contacts Léa Seydoux’s French plant expert, it becomes almost too much rapturously intelligent star wattage for one quietly poetic movie, even if these god-tier actors are just zooming and talking shop.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

"When you look at the prison system in the Northern Territory, it is nearly always 100% Aboriginal children and nearly every single one of those children came out of the child protection system," says Liddle.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

In Asia, Tokyo stocks closed two percent lower, while Hong Kong and Shanghai fell more than one percent.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

It is one of Rossini’s most precious and individual gifts, something no other composer could have imagined.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

“The second thing? The one I couldn’t say on the phone? Yeaaaah.”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith




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