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one-way ticket

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noun

  1. Also called: single ticket.  a ticket entitling a passenger to travel only to his destination, without returning

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The WSJ paid nearly $3,000 for a one-way ticket three weeks before departure, and JetBlue didn’t know I was testing the service.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

Personal discontent is a one-way ticket to intellectual automation.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Overwhelmed by guilt, and embarrassed she fled the country in a bid to escape her unhappiness, booking a one-way ticket to Bangok.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026

In January, ahead of what the government characterized in a court filing as a deadline, Hennen bought a one-way ticket to Colombia connecting through Panama.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

She would hide them beneath her underwear until she could figure out a better place, and tomorrow she would call the bus station and ask the price of a one-way ticket to San Francisco.

From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson

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