How to Use at once in a Sentence

at once

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  • That helps explain why the sale’s final tally tells two stories at once.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2026
  • Then, real people start using it, and the trust issues surface at once.
    — Saran Siva, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • France were controlled and devastating all at once; rarely at risk but always a menace.
    — Thom Harris, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • You can easily get pulled in too many directions and try to implement too many strategies at once.
    — Avery Carl, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The United States holds both at once, working the longer year and wringing more from every hour of it.
    — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Their power is cumulative, because an attacker has to beat all of them at once.
    — Kyle Westaway, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Rucking targets both at once without the joint pounding of running or the recovery debt of hard gym sessions.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 July 2026
  • Hotel networks and public connections are often shared across dozens or hundreds of people at once.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Buyer and Marquez said it’s designed to keep the billions of shares behind bars from flooding the market all at once.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 3 July 2026
  • Gyllenhaal’s movie took heat for wanting to be too many things at once, but this is one of The Bell Jar’s central metaphors.
    — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026
  • The market is beginning to recognize the consequence of that arrangement all at once.
    — Mukhtar Ahmad, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • In small island states, from Haiti to Vanuatu, a single storm can overwhelm entire systems at once.
    — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Someone who could at once articulate the grand scheme while understanding the most granular details.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026
  • If leaders are not present and actively developing people, the system degrades—quietly at first, then all at once.
    — Brian Coyne, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Today's classrooms have smartboards, which are interactive boards that can multitask and accomplish a hundred things at once.
    — Sarah Scott, Parents, 30 June 2026
  • Rather than having all of that money hit the salary cap at once, the NBA proposed gradually increasing it over time.
    — Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The gorgeous 15-inch touch-screen display is spacious enough for both working professionals and creatives to work on multiple projects at once.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • For example, a group of minions might be pretending to fight a group of Vikings on a movie set, or enough alien spaceships to fill the entire screen appear and shoot their lasers at once.
    — Parents, 1 July 2026
  • According to Adexchanger, the numbers explain why everyone is moving at once.
    — Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • It was filled with brackets and parentheticals, written in different fonts and colors, much of it in capital letters, at once detailed and cryptic.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 30 June 2026
  • In Bangladesh, Myanmar and Pakistan, children are exposed to more climate hazards at once and at a higher intensity than anywhere else in the world.
    — Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Spousal death changes nearly every part of an employee's life at once, from household income and health coverage to life insurance and beneficiary designations.
    — Christine Michel Carter, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Careers are often built across multiple roles at once—student, creative, intern, strategist, entrepreneur—before any single title stabilizes.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • By stripping out parts and, crucially, reducing the number of unique parts, the company shortens manufacturing time, raises reliability, and drives down cost, all at once.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Not everything is going to come back at once, not every sector is going to be able to generate the same bipartisan enthusiasm as every other sector, but what is key is to be open to the question of where results have been achieved.
    — Fatma Tanis, NPR, 3 July 2026
  • Michael Jackson’s catalog continues its major sales resurgence as four albums appear on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart at once.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • As client value shifts toward strategic thinking, creative judgment and real collaboration, agency leaders are rethinking hiring, training, structure and workflow all at once.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • Some critics on social media counter that the gatherings risk turning spirituality into spectacle, performance and commodity all at once.
    — Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
  • July’s astro-weather puts conversations, family matters, creativity, routines, and community under a microscope, which means you will be pulled in several directions at once.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • For a venue still writing its opening chapter, Planet Pride offered an early proof point that a single Brooklyn dancefloor could hold multiple countries and cultures at once with the communities that built dance music filling the room.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026

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