Can a paragraph be one sentence?
In academic writing, rarely. It works for deliberate emphasis, perhaps once in a long document, and reads as a stylistic device rather than an accident. Used often it suggests points that have not been developed.
This comes up on Paragraph Structure, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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