one-way

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Recent Examples of one-way Travel + Leisure spotted flight availability throughout the summer season, with one-way fares starting at $439. Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025 Traditional models depended on one-way exchanges: Customers spent money, and companies gave them a product and a receipt. Charles Morey, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025 Now concerned residents are attempting to interrupt the bear’s impromptu coastal getaway by crowd-sourcing the bear’s one-way ticket off the island. Alice Jones Webb, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2025 JetBlue Tickets for one-way or round-trip airfare that includes one-way or round-trip train tickets will go on sale. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for one-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
Adjective
  • However, critics have questioned the constitutionality of the president's trade policies, saying tariffs are fundamentally a legislative power granted to Congress and that their unilateral imposition represents an example of executive overreach.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 May 2025
  • Liman echoed concerns raised by MTA lawyer Roberta Kaplan, who charged that the government’s arguments amounted to claiming a unilateral right to back out of any agreement by citing shifting priorities.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • His one-man play, Above the Call; Beyond the Duty, opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2008 and played L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum three years later.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • Finn Balor hit a one-man stereo DDT/reverse DDT on Rollins and Zayn.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
Adjective
  • Besides dyspnea, sharp and one-sided chest pain is typical.8 Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction to a trigger (e.g., food, medicine, or insect stings).
    Laura Campedelli, Verywell Health, 5 June 2025
  • Two years after defying expectations in Istanbul — pushing Manchester City hard in a final many had predicted would be the most one-sided in history — Inter, gallingly, in the end found themselves on the wrong end of the most one-sided final ever.
    James Horncastle, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • The deceptive advertisement asks for personal information, including your full name, license plate number, and the last five digits of the vehicle registration number.
    Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
  • Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.
    Medora Lee, USA Today, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Packages valued at up to $800 can no longer bypass customs duty and instead have been slapped with higher duties and single package flat costs.
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • For a team usually fizzing with creative attacking ideas, their reliance on a single goalscorer, along with a late addition to the team and an unusually clinical finisher from the edge of the box, is not the spread of goal-scoring responsibility we are used to seeing.
    Thom Harris, New York Times, 28 May 2025
Adjective
  • Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 May 2025
  • Well Studio, and distributed by Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, Flow follows a solitary cat that loses its home following a great flood.
    Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 21 May 2025
Adjective
  • The hybrid arrangement meant that ratings for each individual game fluctuated widely within the series.
    Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 3 June 2025
  • This is what gives each individual contributor the drive to go above and beyond.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 3 June 2025

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“One-way.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/one-way. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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