at one time
idiom
: during one period of time in the past
At one time there was only one grocery store in town.
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While that dealer’s price is more in line with typical used car depreciation, the Foundation series was at one time selling at wildly inflated prices on the used market due to high demand.
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
While there have been too many reports about Hudson and Belichick to go through in-depth at one time, another story has now been broken that is yet another bad look for Hudson.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Abrego Garcia, who at one time was accused by a government confidential source of being a member of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, was allowed to stay in the United States in 2019 after an immigration judge stopped his removal order to El Salvador.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025
So many of my literary heroes—including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway—resided at one time or another in the neighborhood, writing in their walkups and drinking at Chumley’s.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 May 2025
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Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
While there have been too many reports about Hudson and Belichick to go through in-depth at one time, another story has now been broken that is yet another bad look for Hudson.
—Evan Massey, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 May 2025
Abrego Garcia, who at one time was accused by a government confidential source of being a member of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, was allowed to stay in the United States in 2019 after an immigration judge stopped his removal order to El Salvador.
—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 16 May 2025
So many of my literary heroes—including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway—resided at one time or another in the neighborhood, writing in their walkups and drinking at Chumley’s.
—Elise Taylor, Vogue, 13 May 2025
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“At one time.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/at%20one%20time. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.
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