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The phrase "a single excuse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to one specific reason or justification for an action or situation.
Example: "He only had a single excuse for being late, and it didn't seem very convincing."
Alternatives: "one reason" or "a sole justification."
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Qualifying will surely be easy from now on - but in reality there was not a single excuse for England failure from the group they were handed.
Buy a fuckload of food so there isn't a single excuse to leave the house.
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"If you sit back and make every single excuse – I'm a woman, I'm from the east end, I left school at 16 – you never get anywhere.
Teachers have heard every single excuse for why an assignment is late, why you were late, or why some other catastrophe hindered your performance in class.
Which is to say, if all you need is a single good excuse to give up 15 minutes of your time on Tuesday, that's it.
Seriously, I have heard every single excuse people have for not traveling with their children.
And although every single excuse was subtly different, it all came down to the same thing.
What to buy: The single Excuses is released on 28 July.
But when the sun becomes sweltering and the humidity hovers, it seems as if all manner of transgressions can be explained by a single, conspicuously convenient excuse: it's too darn hot.
But Brock Turner wasn't an isolated instance of a single judge making excuses, or a perpetrator evading accountability, or of justice denied.
Quite unexpectedly, the centre manager suddenly left and not a single person had any excuse as to what had happened or why we were not called.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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