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[ adverb ] simultaneously

Synonyms

at_once at_a_time

Examples

"he took three cookies at a time"

Used in print

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

It was enough for people to know that at_one_time he had looked down the street at the fleshy suppleness of a woman he had consumed - watching her become thinner and thinner in the distance , as thin as the seams on her stockings , and still thinner .

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[ adverb ] at a previous time

Examples

"once he loved her" "her erstwhile writing"

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