give one
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“Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America,” Musk said in a post on X early Monday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
If you give one monkey a cucumber slice and you give another monkey a grape, the first monkey will throw the cucumber back at you—probably because you violated its sense of fairness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
Or perhaps more precisely, he does not like the massive offset in power they give one car over another.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026
The US-funded study had sought to give one set of babies the vaccine at birth, while another would have had the shot delayed until six weeks of age.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026
You mean like magic, I asked, and he thought about that and said, no, it’s not magic, it’s just Nature’s way to give one creature advantage over another.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
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