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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alone works" is not correct and may lead to confusion in written English.
It could be used in a context where you want to express that something functions or is effective by itself, but it lacks clarity without additional context.
Example: "In this case, the solution alone works without any additional support."
Alternatives: "stands alone" or "functions independently".
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Major American orchestras rarely program 50-minute works by any contemporary composers, let alone works that are labeled "difficult" on arrival.
Dig a little deeper though, and you'll discover that as well as being funny, moving and scary in the right places, Home Alone works because it doesn't shy away from danger and unhappiness.
That figure alone works out to $74.60 per share.
In the U.K. the charity organization YANA (You Are Not Alone) works to help depressed farmers.
Not Alone works closely with Provide, an organization that supports women's health and reproductive care in rural areas of the United States.
Both totals are far greater than the $600 million Detroit "self-reports". Detroit's unfunded pension liability alone works out to more than $4,300 per person when using the $3 billion total.
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None of those strategies alone worked.
Arguments alone, appeals to rationality alone, work in exceptional cases.
They had never met, let alone worked together.
I've never seen a strategy of price alone work".
REALLY, Tim? Everyone leaves and Chris stays, alone, working.
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