It’s raining again.
It’s getting late.
We’re going to have to pay all over again. It’s crazy.
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One
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One is rare in modern usage, especially in speech, and is confined to formal styles.
It may refer to people in general including the speaker/writer, or, more rarely, as
an oblique reference to the speaker/writer but excluding the listener/reader:
[description of the facilities offered by a hotel]
Table tennis is on offer, and one can also hire bicycles.
I don’t know whether there are any aspects of the countryside that I don’t like,
you know. Occasionally there are horrible smells. Well, one doesn’t like that.
But on the whole I like it.
(oblique reference to the speaker)
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