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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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Good Good plans to donate the proceeds of the campaign for the driver to an organization that supports women, though they’re in the process of researching which one to give to.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

Although the findings add evidence for dark matter, they do not answer one of the largest remaining questions in physics: what dark matter actually consists of.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Edmond “Eddy” Porteous, one of the novel’s narrators, is an 18-year-old gay man in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, and like many artsy young people he expresses his personality through the music he listens to.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

In this study, survival means that a microbe remains alive for at least one Earth day.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

Kiyoshi served one year in the Propaganda Corps.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Much of this originates from an elaborate system involving ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian oil, which often move Iranian oil from sanctioned tankers onto unsanctioned ones.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

It's not a definitive list - teams don't have to put all the changes on that sheet, only the ones that are visible.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Economic cycles are shifting, and for the past few years, have increasingly resembled the ones seen most during the post-World War II period, according to Morgan Stanley.

From MarketWatch Aug. 24, 2026

Those are not typical sticking points in trade negotiations, but emotive ones in Canada, particularly in the French-speaking eastern province of Quebec, which has long sought to preserve its distinct identity.

From Barron's Aug. 24, 2026

His Chickasaw roots shared a lot in common with my Cherokee ones.

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




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