(adv.) By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one.
(adv.) At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.
(adv.) At any one time; -- often nearly equivalent to ever, if ever, or whenever; as, once kindled, it may not be quenched.
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Onetime
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(1) During a discussion about refugees and potential, he recalled how Mo Farah – a black, Muslim onetime asylum seeker – went on to become one of the UK’s greatest ever sports stars.
(2) The news that the state prosecutor wanted Sarkozy to stand trial came on the same day as a major fraud trial opened against Hollande’s onetime senior lieutenant and budget minister Jérôme Cahuzac , who is accused of tax evasion and money-laundering – raising eyebrows on the right about the timing of the announcement.
(3) I also spent time with their onetime drummer John Coghlan, who these days puts in occasional appearances with a tribute band called "State of Quo", and had a long conversation with their ex-bassist Alan Lancaster, who was forced out of the group in the wake of their show-opening appearance at Live Aid.
(4) Last week my friend and onetime colleague, the UK government's former climate adviser John Ashton, berated the BBC for giving Australian climate sceptic Bob Carter undue airtime in its reporting of the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
(5) Its former voters in the west of Scotland and other onetime heartlands believe that Labour has abandoned them and their interests, while believing the SNP’s converse claim to have embraced them.
(6) Onetime Kerry ally McCain, at a subsequent and brutal Senate hearing, turned to Kerry’s wife and stated: “ Teresa, I apologize for what I’m about to do to John .” “I don’t think he cares about the critics at this point in his career.
(7) Mike Duggan, a onetime hospital executive, led by a comfortable margin going into the polls over his African American rival, Wayne County sheriff Benny Napoleon.
(8) Preliminary runoff results, released earlier this week against US wishes, suggested a massive turnaround in favour of the onetime World Bank economist Ghani, who lagged significantly behind Abdullah in first-round voting.
(9) "Fuck me," said Mr Graham to his onetime Kent teammate Brian Luckhurst, "they've booked that Elton John again."
(10) US authorities have not given any information about where the books were found in the Abbottabad residence – so quite what lay on Bin Laden’s bedside table, in the room in which he was shot and killed, remains unknown – nor have they divulged any details of any marginal notes the onetime civil engineering student might have made.
(11) Indeed, the White House referred to the Republican senator for Utah, Orrin Hatch’s, onetime statement: “In all honesty, I would like to see one person come to this floor and say one reason why Merrick Garland does not deserve this position.” To observers, Garland’s meticulous work, as well as his personality, fostered compromise.
(12) Their onetime ally-turned-rival, Mara 18, traces back to the 1940s but shared with the newer gang an open-door membership for Central Americans that put them both at odds with the area's more established, exclusively Mexican gangs.
(13) Results suggest that patients with unclear original indications, a onetime indication, or without clinical evidence of CHF or SVT can be successfully withdrawn.
(14) A onetime investment banker and veteran of two other successful web startups, he is already comfortably off.
(15) ), onetime national heritage minister (remember that?)
(16) Against the backdrop of his new slogan, “Jeb Can Fix It”, Bush took veiled jabs at his onetime Florida ally Marco Rubio, the young senator who bested him in a memorable confrontation during last week’s Republican presidential debate.
(17) It is led by Reclaim’s onetime chief social media promoter, the Canberra truck driver, neo-Nazi metal band member and self-proclaimed “Great Aussie Patriot”, Sherman Burgess.
(18) A former Goldman Sachs banker and onetime Conservative donor, Richard Sharp, who sits on the Bank of England’s independent finance policy committee, was also present.
(19) One of the Duggars’ most ardent public defenders has been Republican presidential candidate and onetime Fox News host Mike Huckabee .
(20) A gunman opened fire at a Florida concert venue as singer Christina Grimmie signed autographs for fans after a show, killing the onetime star of The Voice before shooting and killing himself, officials have said.