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English word

once

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /wʌns/US /wʌns/
adverb

on one occasion only; one time

conjunction

as soon as; when

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And um, I thought it was one of those things that only came along once in a very long while.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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