Ones

[Ones]

One refers to a single person or thing, as well as the number one. If you’re looking for a whole number between zero and two, you can only find one.

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Ones

Ones , adv. Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Once.

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Usage Examples

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don't ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren't blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

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