only option
collocation in Englishmeaningsofonlyandoption
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only
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈəʊn.li/us/ˈoʊn.li/
used to show that there is a single one or very few of something, or that there are ...
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option
noun
uk/ˈɒp.ʃən/us/ˈɑːp.ʃən/
one thing that can be chosen from a set of possibilities, or the freedom to make ...
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(Definition ofonlyandoptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofonly option
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In most cases, a hearing aid is theonlyoptionfor rehabilitation.
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But on closer inspection, it becomes apparent that this is not theonlyoptionavailable to advocates of the politics of compulsion.
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Neonatal heart transplantation may, therefore, prove to be theonlyoptionfor infants with unguarded tricuspid orifice.
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It seemed that all groups, the supporters of the separation of the island and mainland included, saw independence as theonlyoption.
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Theonlyoptionis to stop the analgesics, although this almost inevitably precipitates a temporary worsening of the headaches.
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If, he tells us, we wish to use bodies as a way to construct racial groupings, skin colour is not ouronlyoption.
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To a great extent, marriage was seen as theonlyoptionfor women, apart from the handful of richer women who went into convents.
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It is rational for the committed official to apply the law in any given instance because that is theonlyoptionavailable.
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So theonlyoptionis a keyword search which locates 315 hits.
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In the newly industrialising countries, the demand for pensions is rising and family care is increasingly a desired rather than theonlyoption.
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So theonlyoptionis that it is some kind of impersonal pattern value.
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Theonlyoptionis to invent a new definition of autonomy in which feedback cannot exist if feedforward does not.
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In hypoplasia of pulmonary branches it is theonlyoption.
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It should be emphasized, however, that this is not theonlyoptionavailable to satisfy increasing demand for woody biomass.
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Theonlyoptionleft was transplantation of both heart and lungs, which his parents declined.
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In nonreduplicated stems, theonlyoptionis for the stem tone constraints to be violated, even in the optimal forms.
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