single man
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Her first number one single, Man I Need, topped the UK singles chart for 10 weeks and was named Radio 1's biggest song of the year for 2025.
From BBC
In the pantheon of stand-up comedy’s living legends, few names carry more weight than Fluffy‘s. In “Legend of Fluffy,” which premiered on Netflix in January, the comedian born Gabriel Iglesias takes fans through a giant retrospective of his career in comedy while zooming in on certain aspects of life: dating as a newly single man, trying to age gracefully, and a robbery that happened at his former home in Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times
Ford, meanwhile, has been one of the biggest names in fashion, but has also made two highly acclaimed and stylish films - A Single Man, starring Firth and Hoult, in 2009; and Nocturnal Animals, which earned him two Bafta nominations, in 2016.
From BBC
How City came to rely so heavily on a single man is more than a story of one athlete catching fire.
The separation of powers provides safeguards against threats to liberty stemming from the accumulation of powers in any single man or institution.
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