one-way

adjective

Definition of one-waynext
as in unilateral

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Recent Examples of one-way Ansariy departed the country with a one-way ticket to Turkey just five days after a co-conspirator was arrested on May 11, 2016, officials said. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 Crowe, watching from behind one-way glass and turning up in encounters beyond the confines of the study itself, gives that intensity a perfectly legible antagonist, if not always a valid one. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2026 See, the way my thighs are set up, running long distance in a pair of shorty shorts would just mean punching a one-way ticket to Chafe-town. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 22 Sep. 2026 Swarm Defense Technologies has received an order from the US Department of War for 4,000 Kiwi one-way attack drones, with a minimum value of $25 million including munitions. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for one-way
Recent Examples of Synonyms for one-way
  1. unilateral
  2. one-man
  3. one-sided
  4. personal
  5. single
  6. solitary
  7. individual
Adjective
  • Cuba described it as a unilateral decision to downgrade relations, limiting them to consular matters.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2026
  • When Brazil ratified the agreement, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva described it not as a trade policy achievement but as a reaffirmation of multilateralism in an era of unilateral tariffs.
    — JONAS NAHM, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of unilateral
Adjective
  • Because China’s system is tightly controlled, its descent into personalistic one-man rule does not play out in divisive confrontations on television or erratic social media rants by the top leader.
    — Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Palminteri wrote the story and developed it from his one-man stage show.
    — Alejandro Avila OutKick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of one-man
Adjective
  • The one-sided manner of Watford’s defeat was, on the one hand, a great credit to him and his players.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Beneath its upbeat production, the lyrics offer a clever reminder that accountability is rarely one-sided.
    — qygwork, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of one-sided
Adjective
  • The lawsuits, in his eyes, are simply cases of personal misfortune and landlord greed.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Meta has pressed ahead with its own personal AI agent, launching its Muse agent in early September, modeled on the open-source AI agent OpenClaw.
    — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of personal
Adjective
  • At the very top of the market, only 1% of collectors bought a single work priced above $1 million in 2025 and the first half of 2026, and Gen Z accounted for nearly half of them.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In the first of two nights there Monday, Williams performed for almost exactly two hours without doing a single Paramore song — and what’s remarkable is, nobody cared.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of single
Adjective
  • After most of the sellout crowd filed out Wednesday, one solitary Sox fan stood at his seat under the press box, shouting obscenities about the Guardians and the city of Cleveland.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Oct. 2026
  • My craft choices here around the music of the sentence and its visual presentation as a solitary line originate from my work in poetry.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of solitary
Adjective
  • At the new store, stylists will work one-on-one with clients to build wardrobes for work, travel and special occasions, guided by an understanding of individual style and the craftsmanship and versatility of each piece.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Controlling and monitoring individual cells has also illuminated neurological diseases, such as Parkinson's and epilepsy.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of individual

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