at one stroke

1. Also, at one blow;;. At the same time, with one forceful or quick action. For example, I managed to please both buyer and seller at one stroke. The first term is the older version, so used by Chaucer; at one blow was used by Shakespeare.

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“It was backbreaking work because we bent over all day, and I was not very good at the beginning. Also I was afraid of the knife. We had to hold a bundle in one hand and use a long knife in the other to at one stroke make it all the same length. We started working at midnight or 1 a.m. with a miner’s lamp on our hats. So it was dark and kind of scary at first.”

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Adolf Hitler, after first encountering his music, found himself “captivated at one stroke. … My youthful enthusiasm … knew no bounds.”

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At one stroke of a governor's pen, America has suddenly rejoined the global clean energy and electrified transportation movement — only one day after China stepped into the limelight as its new leader.

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Now, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has undercut all of them at one stroke.

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At one stroke, she freed herself from both narrative and musical constraints, moving toward the hybrid idiom that would become her signature.

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