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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Puerto Rico, which at one time dominated drug manufacturing, may be the answer.
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Staff, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
Yeah—at one time in my life his work was very close to my heart.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 June 2024
Texas’s sugar industry, at one time the third biggest in the country, had effectively collapsed, a casualty of the increasingly dire water situation along the Rio Grande.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Her father, Alfred, was a soldier and cook who was personal chef to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, at one time the governor general of Canada, and who later became a restaurateur; her mother, Yetta (Wonsoff) Clark, was a Dutch immigrant from Poland.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2024
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Staff, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
Yeah—at one time in my life his work was very close to my heart.
—Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 June 2024
Texas’s sugar industry, at one time the third biggest in the country, had effectively collapsed, a casualty of the increasingly dire water situation along the Rio Grande.
—Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 13 June 2024
Her father, Alfred, was a soldier and cook who was personal chef to Field Marshal Harold Alexander, at one time the governor general of Canada, and who later became a restaurateur; her mother, Yetta (Wonsoff) Clark, was a Dutch immigrant from Poland.
—Sam Roberts, New York Times, 7 June 2024
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