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FOR ONE
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
As a particular one of several possibilities
Example:
her mother for one was worried
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Context examples:
Each is holding a sock worn by a young child in Ghana for one night only.
(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)
The relationship between genes and proteins isn’t a simple matter of one gene coding for one protein.
(Revealing the human proteome, NIH)
I fancy that Lord Holdhurst for one, and Mr. Percy Phelps for another, would very much rather that the affair never got as far as a police-court.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But now, could I sit still for one half-hour and do nothing, not even think, it would be the most pleasurable thing in the world.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It is wonderful what a good night's sleep will do for one.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I couldn't talk to him, said Mr. Peggotty, nor he to me; but we was company for one another, too, along the dusty roads.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was glad for one thing: the rope was off his neck.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Also is tobacco of value. It is of very great value. The Indian gives one large salmon for one leaf of tobacco, and he chews the tobacco for a long time.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
I’ve done enough for one sitting.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
