give one
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Later this year, the singer is set to give one of his biggest UK performances yet at London's O2 arena.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 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
What it brought was consistently more penalties, because there were many more reasons to give one.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
I only give one gift a year these days.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
He will give one of the sunflower paintings to Gauguin, per his request.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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