once that

conjunction

: once

Examples of once that in a Sentence

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But once that storyline was resolved, viewers moved on. Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025 If your bowl is too deep, dense spices will sink to the bottom, meaning that guests will be dipping into a lot of plain oil before getting down to the good stuff (which will be highly concentrated once that oil disappears). Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024 The elevated permissions required to perform certain system-level activities that need an admin account to authorize are granted on a just-in-time basis and revoked once that authorization has been completed. Davey Winder, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, people grasped at once that a new era had started. Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for once that 

Word History

First Known Use

1874, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of once that was in 1874

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“Once that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/once%20that. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.

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