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  • Singular is "medium" and there are great many of them: Medium of cinema, medium of photography, medium of journalism, medium of music, etc, etc.

    Palin attorney warns media over 'defamatory' charges 2009

  • Singular is a New York Times bestselling author who has followed criminal investigations into FLDS since 2006.

    Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response 2008

  • Singular is the movement, the dialogue, the novelistic intrigue.

    Miguel Angel Asturias - Banquet Speech 1967

  • The book in question was called Singular Pleasures: The Womanly Art of Masturbation, and when I called my mother to ask if she'd lost her mind, she explained in measured, even tones that masturbation was a perfectly natural option for a woman in my position to consider.

    The Singular Exploits of Wonder Mom and Party Girl (Excerpt) Marc Schuster 2009

  • "I completed what grammarians call the Singular Number by adding '_Il vient; _' whereupon -- but I have told you."

    Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898

  • That year, she was also offered a part in a play called The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, about a 19th-century woman who lived her life as a male waiter in a Dublin hotel.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LIAM LACEY 2011

  • That year, she was also offered a part in a play called The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, about a 19th-century woman who lived her life as a male waiter in a Dublin hotel.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed LIAM LACEY 2011

  • We used a method called Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), a method to break down complex data in matrices to its component parts.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2008

  • On thia fpot, and throughout the whole courfe of the canal, there was an aHondant difplay of mechanic contrivance. and the other is entitled Singular Obfer* vations and Improvements*

    The Monthly Review 1791

  • "Singular," he commented, studying his grape-fruit with the air of an oracle gazing into crystal.

    The Lighted Match Charles Neville Buck 1904

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  • The word 'singular' describes something that is unique or odd, perhaps one of a kind. This word is used often by Sherlock Holmes.

    August 21, 2009