One time
One time adverb - On one occasion.
Present
Present adjective - Existing or in progress right now.
Both terms in one sentence
- One time you visit him, he tells you he's currently busy with dealing with an outbreak of a sexually transmitted disease, that is only present in varren.
- One time travel story had him blown to bits in the distant past and scattered across the ocean floor, only to be reassembled in the present day (not without psychological harm, though).
- As, at present, nothing ever happens there unless there's a game, trains only run on football Sundays (including that one time MetLife Stadium had the Super Bowl, which is the only time Amtrak trains ever stopped at Secaucus—the better to get fans to this train).
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Present and One time. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/one_time/present
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