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English word

one

A1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /wʌn/US /wʌn/
determiner

the number 1

number

the number 1

pronoun

used to avoid repeating a noun, when you are referring to somebody/something that has already been mentioned, or that the person you are speaking to knows about

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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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