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Scripps Research chemists, in two high-profile studies, have now proposed an elegant solution to this mystery, showing how this single-handedness or "homochirality" could have become established in biology.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

With a single-handedness of management that amounts almost to secrecy, he has placed a great K on many orders.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was all the remembrance of disappointed hopes, the hardships of winter, the loneliness of single-handedness in her look, but I understood, and I love to remember her worn face and her young blue eyes.

From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Jewett, Sarah Orne