- a variation of one-time.
onetime
Example Sentences
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The battles fought between surviving friends—in this case Wilde’s literary executor, Robert Ross, and Wilde’s onetime boyfriend, Alfred “Bosie” Douglas—are more partisan, the enmities more acrimonious.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
John and Laura Overdeck’s divorce is giving the world a peek into the lives of the ultrarich, and the breadth of the onetime couple’s enormous wealth at stake in a New Jersey courthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Yiannopoulos, 41, a former editor of Breitbart News and a onetime employee of rapper Kanye West, appears to be held in Louisiana, according to a search of ICE's inmate registry.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
It all prompted a kind of deeply existential question: If this is how we now treat a onetime pandemic hero, what will happen the next time we face a similar public health crisis?
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
In Baltimore’s Preakness Stakes, Stout stuck to his stirrups but finished second to Derby winner Bold Venture, foiled by the brilliant reinsmanship of Seabiscuit’s onetime jockey, George Woolf.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
