no one
pronoun
no person; not anyone; nobody.
no one
American
[noh wuhn]
/ ˈnoʊ ˌwʌn /
Or
no-one
pronoun
no-one
British
pronoun
Usage
See each.
Etymology
Origin of no one
First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences
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"I want everyone to be able to use the bathroom on an equal footing. Either we all pay 50 cents or no one pays 50 cents," she said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026
If I wanted to see someone near my home soon, the choice was a physician a year or two out of residency—or no one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The group is calling for more funding for palliative care so "no one feels pressured to end their lives simply because they are not receiving the medical help they deserve".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Even in death, though, no one was listening to Helaena.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
But in the case of Don Quixote and Sancho, no one had to tell anything to anyone.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
"So you search for one and when you find it, no-one else will have it: that sound is yours."
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
"For now, no-one has tested positive, and it is likely no one will be positive after 21 days of incubation has elapsed," Kamba told reporters.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
"There is no-one checking what I go and buy across the border, so I can just go buy anything and walk through the border and no-one stops me."
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
Prior to our work, no-one suspected that these two times, measured in entirely different ways, would be equal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
And of course he now realized that when they arranged to wait for one another at the Tombs no-one had said anything about How Long.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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