One-time
One-time adjective - Belonging to some prior time.
Present
Present adjective - Temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration.
Usage example: present observations
Both words in one sentence
- This is infamously present in MMORPGs or any other game with online connectivity, due to one-time events, patch updates, and irreplaceable quest reward items (such as consumables that become Too Awesome to Use) distributed from an online source.
Source: Lost Forever - Clear and Present Danger has a relatively long-winded passage on one-time pads (see below), and even The Hunt for Red October goes into some length about it.
Source: Reading the Enemy's Mail - Even so, the setup proves unable to stand up once the ship begins to take damage in combat (no crew being present to repair it while Scotty was driving the ship), and it was never meant to be anything other than a one-time kludge solution.
Source: Crew of One
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Present and One-time. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/one-time/present
One-time & Present. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/one-time/present>.
Present or One-time. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/one-time/present.
