one-sided

Example Sentences

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The audience understood, viscerally, what could be asked of their countries—and that the pressure wasn’t one-sided.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

This one-sided empathy is not a spontaneous response to compelling facts, however.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

Iran, which is an IMO member but does not sit on its council, hit out at the declaration, branding it "one-sided, unfair, inaccurate and legally deficient".

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

But when wage growth is concentrated at the top and median wages stagnate, the transmission becomes one-sided.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

Back in Connecticut he had sometimes watched the one-sided fights of cats and mice in the meadow, and unless the mice were near their holes, the fights always ended in the same way.

From "The Cricket in Times Square" by George Selden