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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about one o'clock" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate an approximate time, often when the exact time is not known or not important.
Example: "Let's meet at the café around one o'clock."
Alternatives: "around one" or "approximately one o'clock".
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When I met him, Andrew Brown – a 35-year-old family man with three kids – had caught his most recent obstructing charge at about one o'clock in the morning, on his way home from a long night driving a shuttle bus for casino-goers.
Members of the group were briefed on the situation that would confront them: at about one o'clock, the Internet would go down.
In my capacity as a meteorologist, I guess play will commence at about one o'clock.
I see the tweets at about one o'clock: "Tanks moving into Bab el-Louq.
About one o'clock Mr Hoover and Mr Roosevelt, accompanied by their aides, left the Capitol and appeared on the steps of the east portico, where a crowd of perhaps 150,000 persons awaited them.
The Sylacauga Meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in Sylacauga, Alabama, at about one o'clock in the afternoon on November 30 , 1954
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"One o'clock on the dot, kiddo".
By one o'clock on Tuesday morning in Beijing, the value of a single bitcoin had hit a record of nearly four thousand three hundred yuan, or about seven hundred dollars.
On Saturdays, a one o'clock matinee ended at about 5.30pm, then the 6.30pm performance ended just before 11pm.
Not many people were about; it was after midnight, almost one o'clock, the widely spaced lampposts casting pools of misty, yellow illumination.
That's at one o'clock, about ninety minutes from now.
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