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View synonyms for at once

at once

  1. Immediately, as in Mother told the children to come inside at once . [First half of 1500s]

  2. At the same time, as in We can't all fit into the boat at once . [First half of 1200s] Also see at one time , def. 1.



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“He could smell out condescension, a slight, an air of superiority or a snub at a thousand paces; and at once smelt, he could charge after it with quite shocking abandon.”

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“At the time, there were so many things happening at once out of nowhere, we didn’t really have time to think, ‘I wonder how we’re doing with this?’

“We're talking about National Insurance, National Living Wage, we're talking about business rates. We have packaging and recycling taxes coming in. That's a lot of pressure on business all at once,” he said.

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But “Wicked” will delight fans of the stage production as a faithful adaptation that is at once playful but reverent to the iconic “Defying Gravity.”

So sometimes they build and then all pop out at once.

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