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Recent Examples of one-way
Unlike previous generations, who looked to traditional advertising or celebrity endorsements for purchasing decisions, Gen-A is far less susceptible to one-way communication.
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Casper Ravn-Sørensen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Culture used to come out of Hollywood and journalism like a one-way street.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
When a satellite takes a one-way trip through the atmosphere, the process is called deorbiting.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024
The roadway will be fully closed on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on weekends one-way traffic control will be in place during the same hours.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
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Casper Ravn-Sørensen, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Culture used to come out of Hollywood and journalism like a one-way street.
—Matt Donnelly, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
When a satellite takes a one-way trip through the atmosphere, the process is called deorbiting.
—Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2024
The roadway will be fully closed on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on weekends one-way traffic control will be in place during the same hours.
—Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
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Ministers set the level of the licence fee and can make unilateral decisions, such as requiring the BBC to help pay for the World Service.Jake Kanter, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2024
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Internationally, Trump's policies could contribute to a broader global shift away from multilateralism and democracy promotion, with many allies already wary of an inward-focused, unilateral U.S. stance.David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
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The pair's trip to Mexico comes weeks after Foxx performed his emotional one-man show, One More Chance: An Evening with Jamie Foxx, in Atlanta between Oct. 3 and Oct. 5.Tommy McArdle, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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In Iraq, an unstable Baathist coalition was overthrown in a brutal coup by a new one-man regime led by the thuggish Saddam Hussein.Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
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But these ties are often mistaken for friendships by Westerners, and frequently turn one-sided in favor of the CCP—absent sufficient leverage.Diane Brady, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
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The only disparity that was more one-sided was the $22.7 million GOP advantage in Pennsylvania’s Senate race.Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2024
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While an overall heaviness weighs 1883 down, there’s a level of personal feeling here that compensates, as Sheridan concocts an American origin story filled with the intentional messiness and ambiguity that has always been his hallmark.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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One of my personal joys of visiting a mountain town is asking locals to tell me the latest and greatest tale of bear crime.Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 18 Nov. 2024
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Vents in the front and across the top of the head are all controlled easily with a single switch and make the helmet highly breathable.Outside Editors, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
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The man was taken to a Fargo, N.D., hospital by ambulance to be treated for a single gunshot wound.Matt Henson, Twin Cities, 9 Nov. 2024
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The smallest of the wild cats, sand cats live a solitary life in the deserts of Africa and Asia.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Under-20s edged out narrow wins in many of their key fixtures, and the Under-17s followed suit with solitary goal wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals over Poland and the United States respectively before the shootout success in the final.Neel Shelat, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent history is replete with elections which seemed more transformational at the time than a few years later, attributable more to the individual winner or circumstances than to a more basic change.Carl Leubsdorf, The Mercury News, 16 Nov. 2024
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When applied to each state’s eight individual grades used in my scorecard, this geeky math shows California’s grades had the highest deviation.Jonathan Lansner, Orange County Register, 14 Nov. 2024
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“One-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-way. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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