Multiple
Multiple adjective - Used or done by a number of people as a group.
Usage example: multiple ownership of a vacation condo
Sole
Sole adjective - Belonging only to the one person, unit, or group named.
Usage example: the landowner has sole rights to the property, so he can do whatever he wants to with it
Both words in one sentence
- Reila "Number 13" from Valkyria Chronicles III is the sole survivor of multiple squads, causing her to be viewed as The Jinx by the regular army.
Source: Sole Survivor -
The difficulty ramps up as you go along and when youre up against the sole surviving faction most battles would require multiple reloads.
Source: Video Game / Age of War -
A number of characters in Kajika are named after fish, for the sole reason that Toriyama had multiple tanks full of tropical fish in his workroom at the time he was drawing it.
Source: Creator / Akira Toriyama
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