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- adverb
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Examples
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When Fords famously took the checkered flag one-two-three, Henry II was beaming in the grandstands.
The Most Beautiful Cars of Le Mans A.J. Baime 2011
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But he can only reach bear's rump, an 'dawgs bein' ruined fast, one-two-three time.
THE END OF THE STORY 2010
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People have had enough of trying to adopt one-two-three belief systems, and I think this is very good news.
Susan Piver: Are Self-Help Books Actually Helpful? Susan Piver 2011
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Because of Varley, Pollack, and Anthony, by the mid-1990's my guard was down and I was wide open for the knockout blow, or rather, one-two-three punch: Sean Stewart's Resurrection Man (1995), followed by Night Watch (1997) and Galveston (2000).
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People have had enough of trying to adopt one-two-three belief systems, and I think this is very good news.
Susan Piver: Are Self-Help Books Actually Helpful? Susan Piver 2011
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The doctors rushed Peter, Ben, or Judas to the table, where they strapped wires to his tiny chest and shouted one-two-three come on.
The Adults Alison Espach 2011
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Many thought that really, it was more a one-two-three.
Knockout Susan Gibb 2011
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Why, when she played her one-two-three, tum-tum-tum, I was in the seventh heaven of bliss.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Many thought that really, it was more a one-two-three.
Knockout Susan Gibb 2011
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Only just now have I kicked a man in the head, and, one-two-three, just like that, men come with guns to take me to jail for kicking a man in the head.
CHAPTER XXXVI 2010
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