single-handedly
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4.1
- adverb
- /ˈsɪŋɡlˈhændɪdli/
:
sin ayuda
- He single-handedly fixed the car, demonstrating his impressive mechanical skills.
- almost single-handedly
This is I feel like this could single handedly crush his whole platform.
- This is I feel like this could single handedly crush his whole platform.
- So you think that single handedly Elon Musk saved free speech?
- You have single handedly been ushering this into reality.
- Steven Gerrard almost single handedly won a Champions League with Liverpool.
- But and then there's Brendan Schaub, who almost single handedly took out the entire podcast universe.
- I think Logan Paul single handedly killed dabbing.
- I'm watching a dude reshape an entire culture single handedly.
- My mother was raising three children single handedly.
- He crushed trust in cryptocurrency single handedly.
- And he obviously is perhaps working to single handedly manage the decline in birth rates that he speaks of.
Examples
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For five decades, she had single-handedly controlled the fate of the business she had created.
Fiction book (2001) -
You have single handedly been ushering this into reality.
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Do you feel that you are single handedly trying to keep this art alive?
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Guys, Charlie single-handedly got us out of that mess.
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I can, however, tell you that these photos single-handedly convinced me to write this piece.
Blog text (14) -
What a great fantasy to think I could single-handedly right a terrible wrong!
Blog text (1) -
He pretty much single handedly led the fight against Bechtel.
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Steven Gerrard almost single handedly won a Champions League with Liverpool.
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One man, Vasily Arkepal, has now single handedly saved the world from nuclear war.
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But Sabrina is almost single handedly responsible for all of the success that I've had in the last year.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
By yourself with no other people present
121
2.9
Without help from other people
60
2.9
Without any other people present
3
4.9
Done without help from other people
3
3.8
One person does something without help from other people
1
5.9
Done personally by the person who made or wrote it
1
5.3
Using your own effort without help from others
Antonyms
How Independent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word single-handedly comes from the image of doing a task with just one hand: single 'one' and hand 'hand', like a sailor steering a small boat alone. So it means doing something without help from anyone else.