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Discover LudwigThe phrase "act of one" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an action or deed performed by a single individual, often in discussions about responsibility or agency.
Example: "The act of one can sometimes lead to significant change in a community."
Alternatives: "deed of an individual" or "action of a single person".
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Article after article and news report after news report focus on the act of one white officer urging us all think that justice this time may get served.
How do I get into it?", I say: "Just go to the first act of one of them and follow it". Nobody sings on top of each other, it's all nice and straightforward.
There also was the real fear that all it takes is the crazed act of one unhinged individual to derail the growing recognition on the part of a wide body of the public and many public officials that police violence is a major legal and public policy issue that cannot be ignored.
Ms. Caddo, 61, and the others said they feared hatred and retribution from white communities for the act of one Apache, Leonard Gregg, 29, a contract firefighter who was arrested on Sunday and charged with starting a fire that converged with a smaller one and grew into the largest wildfire in Arizona history.
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land — here unfolded the final act of one of the last century's most momentous events.
For example, Emanuel at first portrayed McDonald's shooting as the isolated act of one rogue cop.
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Just over three-quarters of all school homicides took place in a single act of one-on-one violence, the CDC researchers found.
"It's an act of one-upmanship.
The requirement of the underpass, and the payment by the railway under the 1921 Tennessee act of one-half the cost of separating the grades, are results of the federal aid legislation.
In December 2005, at the summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Mecca, Ahmadinejad had used a speech to deny the Holocaust – described by one observer as "a brazen act of one-upmanship that left the Al Saud [Saudi Arabia's ruling family] mortified and unable to respond".
Then whenever the problem arises, the disposition will prompt a prediction of one-boxing and afterwards the act of one-boxing (still freely chosen).
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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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