one another
Americanpronoun
pronoun
Usage
See each other.
Etymology
Origin of one another
First recorded in 1520–30
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Example Sentences
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Later, wedding performed, as they dance the “Chicken Dance” with one another, Marion sighs, “Oh, Lyle, it’s too bad our father isn’t alive to see this.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
If people don’t even know one another, the leap to conflict is higher risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Researchers would need to move beyond strictly linear models and examine processes that happen simultaneously, influence one another, and change as a person interacts with the surrounding world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
McCartney said fellow passengers had supported one another throughout the disruption, helping with transport, translation and finding alternative routes home.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
True friends should believe one another, he insisted, and he was about to say just that when he remembered that his friends weren’t there.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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