Such spikes in energy consumption do not have to be singular, because it is possible to assign an array of situations where energy losses occur and track them to the specific location.
But ageism is singular, because it's directed at a group that at one point wasn't the Other — and at a group that the ageist will one day, if all goes well, join.
A vague concept is singular because it is about only one thing, but it is not determined what thing that is; examples of such concepts are 'this human,'thisis cup,' hence the name 'vague singulars'.
Most of the theories used in futures studies assume that the future is plural and not singular because it is difficult to say which entity will yield to prediction.
The crusaders of Eig's book referred to it in that singular way because it was a dream they had chased for so long, a silver bullet that actually turned out to be one.
"This study highlights the importance of organizations like the Max Cure Foundation and all of these other childhood cancer organizations that have a family support, financial support component to them or have that as their singular mission because it's impacting segments of the population," he said.
Leslie Talbot is the author of Singular Existence: Because It's Better to Be Alone Than to Wish You Were!
British donations to help the victims of the 2004 south Asian tsunami, which got intense media coverage in part because it was a singular catastrophic event rather than an ongoing crisis, were 45 times higher than they have been so far to help feed starving east Africans, regardless of the huge numbers of victims in both cases.
"A single cart can't activate a streetscape in the same way a pod can," says Rodgers. "In cities that rely on the roaming food truck model, it's difficult for a cart to establish a presence, not only because it is singular, but also because it is temporary.
I'm just guessing here, but the noun species in B is unusual because it's singular and has no plural form.
