Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
once .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Once.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
one .
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Examples
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* Because the sick ones are the ones in need of a doctor .. not the healthy ones*
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It’s permissible for the government to draw distinctions, even if *they aren’t the best ones, or even good ones*.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jeff Rowes Guest-Blogging This Week on the Bone Marrow Compensation Case 2009
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Well, one of the main ones is dilation and evacuation (D&E).
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One of the main ones is that workers become more interchangeable, and they lose some of their bargaining power.
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One of the main ones is that workers become more interchangeable, and they lose some of their bargaining power.
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One of the main ones is that workers become more interchangeable, and they lose some of their bargaining power.
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One of the main ones is widening a 2 mile stetch of 29 to 8 lanes from Wal Mart to the Hollymead town center.
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To think of all the other girls who are driven out of their childhood homes because of a total accident of birth, especially the plain ones, which is so unfair on them but no one seems to care.
Mrs Cameron's diary As seen by Catherine Bennett 2010
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“When I went back to the restaurant to tell the owner what had happened, she said the cat that had bitten me was known locally as a ‘crazy cat’, which is what they call the ones they think have rabies,” Samantha explained.
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Additionally, our number of unacceptable experiences, which we call ones and twos, continues to remain at low level.
unknown title 2011
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