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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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Lozano points to weather and climate monitoring as one potential application.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

When she and her gardener sheet-mulched the front yard with cardboard Amazon boxes she had collected from her neighbors in October, one neighbor joked that it looked ready for Halloween.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

Researchers filled each reservoir with one gram of ASCENT, a liquid with a viscosity similar to baby oil.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The administration isn’t driving around in fancy cars — Neville doesn’t even own an automobile and Den Herder shares one with her husband.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

As soon as she thinks the nosebleeds are under control, another one is just around the corner.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly




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