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see at one time , def. 1.

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Example Sentences

"I'm kinda like a one-guy-at-a-time kind of person," Arias testified.

That “slow slow,” “orangier,” using dark as a noun and the exhilarating “bit-at-a-time”—what perfect control she wields.

"Well, I suppose I'm a one-idea-at-a-time sort of person," he said.

The deterioration in the income of the families, resulting from the one-at-a-time accidents, was 64 per cent.

He walks along the wire fence in a gliding, one-leg-at-a-time fashion, as he often does on the twig of a tree.

At the hull of the tractor, he made the foot-at-a-time crossover and again fought suit and current to get back to the cab.

Mother was right—the world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

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