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'the only document' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to a singular item, or when you want to emphasize that there is only one item or document in a group. Example: "The only document I need to submit is my application form."
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the only document
adverb
Without others or anything further; exclusively.
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Time offers the only document against nothingness.
The only document we have is paper with refugee status".
It is the only document that still holds up".
Nor is currency the only document being copied.
"The only document we've got is our four names on the mortgage," Dr. Kettler said.
There was no contract - the only document she signed was a non-disclosure form.
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The only documents that must be kept are original wills.
A few religious texts prepared by mission societies are the only documents in the language.
A Wells Fargo spokesman, Larry Haeg, said the only documents the bank had been able to find were from 1944 and 1945 and indicated only that Wells Fargo was one of the depositories.
Dorothy Dean, the only documented African-American member of Andy Warhol's inner circle, is the subject of a series of photographs by Jayson Keeling and Kalup Linzy.
For the only documented performance during his lifetime, in 1960, at an art gallery in Paris, with Klein himself in white tie as conductor, only 10 musicians participated.
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