alone
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1.0
- adverb
- /əˈloʊn/
:
solamente
- It's just pure silence alone with your thoughts.
- words alone
- alone is insufficient
- market forces alone
That alone is admirable and that alone is good enough.
- That alone is admirable and that alone is good enough.
- OK, that sentence alone justifies our hats.
- Is that just like Adsense alone or just Adsense?
- You have to take action because talent alone is not enough.
- You've got to have evidence, yes, but evidence alone is not enough.
- For me, just the music alone is I mean the guitar.
- This little bottle alone is only I cannot speak.
- The look, the shoes alone, man, the big deal.
- So guys, those two things alone, that's that.
Examples
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- I told you before, I came alone.
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The belief that you can find fulfillment alone is a lie.
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But the technology alone will not be enough.
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And that alone is a reason this could never work.
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I'll fight this alone on my own.
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I believe that you alone can be happy on that farm, because I know you were never that crazy about being an actor.
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For goodness' sake, he had never even seen the girl, let alone talked to her.
Fiction book (1990) -
But after that, you will be judged on your merit alone.
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You can't rely on natural ability alone.
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She prefers to study alone in her room without any distractions.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
The single person or thing of its kind
241
4.0
Only, not involving anyone or anything else
191
3.3
In a way that includes no other people or things
121
2.9
Without help from other people
60
2.9
Without any other people present
57
4.1
Without help from other people
14
4.6
Without another person to go with you
3
4.9
Done without help from other people
3
3.8
One person does something without help from other people
2
3.9
Without help from anyone else
By oneself without other people
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Etymology
Alone originally joined all and one to mean 'all one' or 'only one'. So alone can mean 'only', with nothing else included.