Sentence examples for once a word from inspiring English sources

For once, a word so often bandied about in the 21st century was relevant to this KL/Chanel moment: awesome.

Once a word acquires general currency, only a hopelessly out-of-touch pedant would take up quixotic arms against it.

"The deletion of entries went against all OED policy before and since: usually, once a word is added to the OED, it remains forever," she wrote.

Once a word is submitted, the dictionary's editors will check to see if there is independent evidence showing it is in use.

Indeed, it is accepted wisdom among linguists that once a word actually shows up in a slang dictionary, it effectively ceases to be slang.

Once a word, phrase or sound bite wins widespread usage, it escapes the promulgator's possession and enters the wide world of the public domain.

Thus, no word or picture was repeated over the 4 runs although 1) each object concept occurred twice (once as a word and once as a picture) and 2) the participants who participated in both English and Greek versions of the paradigm were exposed to the same pictures twice.

A literary blog once created a word collage out of all blurbs by the novelist Gary Shteyngart.

Through reading the Times article, however, her attitude becomes the antithesis of what it once was (a word she uses quite effectively in the piece itself, incidentally).

"Reeling" was once a vivid word, but it has been cheapened by overuse, often in partnership with "still".

The first story: "There was once a little word named 'Please,'" I read, "that lived in a small boy's mouth".