as in independently
without aid or support
the team's star slugger hit three home runs, effectively winning the game single-handedly
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Adverb
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Kidnappings, other atrocities This year alone, the Trump administration has landed four Immigration and Customs Enforcement flights into Haiti.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2025 -
Burnett alone had his own sizable stable of reality follow-ups to Survivor, including, but certainly not limited to, The Apprentice, Rock Star, The Contender, The Restaurant, Boarding House: North Shore, On the Lot, Shark Tank, and The Voice.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
31 May 2025
Adverb
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As the most recent common ancestor for humans and octopuses lived around 750 million years ago, experts believe that many similarities, from similar camera-like eyes to maps of neural activities, evolved separately in a process known as convergent evolution.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
ArsTechnica,
7 June 2025
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Emergency responders recovered a body from the East River Friday night, the second to surface in the same day amid search efforts for two teenagers who are separately believed to have drowned last week.—
Roni Jacobson,
New York Daily News,
7 June 2025
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But the problem is the quality of education that the students receive, when they are rushed through the pipeline, with no time to focus on themselves, solely concentrated on productivity and employability, to pay back their debt.—
Letters to the Editor,
Hartford Courant,
1 June 2025
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With an Apple account solely dedicated to your Apple TV box and Apple TV hardware and software tracking disabled as much as possible, Apple would have minimal data to ascribe to you as an Apple TV owner.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
1 June 2025
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