diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6b7f9a1fe6..0237c42ca5 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3020,7 +3020,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "nu-protocol",
  "nu-test-support",
  "nu-utils",
- "once_cell",
  "percent-encoding",
  "reedline",
  "rstest",
@@ -3164,7 +3163,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-traits",
  "nuon",
  "oem_cp",
- "once_cell",
  "open",
  "os_pipe",
  "pathdiff",
@@ -3257,7 +3255,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "nu-protocol",
  "nu-table",
  "nu-utils",
- "once_cell",
  "ratatui",
  "strip-ansi-escapes",
  "terminal_size",
@@ -3477,7 +3474,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "mach2",
  "nix 0.29.0",
  "ntapi",
- "once_cell",
  "procfs",
  "sysinfo 0.32.0",
  "windows",
@@ -3493,7 +3489,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "nu-engine",
  "nu-protocol",
  "nu-utils",
- "once_cell",
  "tabled",
  "terminal_size",
 ]
@@ -3528,7 +3523,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "lscolors",
  "nix 0.29.0",
  "num-format",
- "once_cell",
  "serde",
  "strip-ansi-escapes",
  "sys-locale",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0390bc956b..de6aa22211 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -119,7 +119,6 @@ num-format = "0.4"
 num-traits = "0.2"
 oem_cp = "2.0.0"
 omnipath = "0.1"
-once_cell = "1.20"
 open = "5.3"
 os_pipe = { version = "1.2", features = ["io_safety"] }
 pathdiff = "0.2"
diff --git a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
index 9529691c24..0379740168 100644
--- a/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ is_executable = { workspace = true }
 log = { workspace = true }
 miette = { workspace = true, features = ["fancy-no-backtrace"] }
 lscolors = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["nu-ansi-term"] }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 percent-encoding = { workspace = true }
 sysinfo = { workspace = true }
 unicode-segmentation = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-cli/src/repl.rs b/crates/nu-cli/src/repl.rs
index 1498d0a572..4eb67f4036 100644
--- a/crates/nu-cli/src/repl.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-cli/src/repl.rs
@@ -1358,10 +1358,9 @@ fn run_finaliziation_ansi_sequence(
 
 // Absolute paths with a drive letter, like 'C:', 'D:\', 'E:\foo'
 #[cfg(windows)]
-static DRIVE_PATH_REGEX: once_cell::sync::Lazy<fancy_regex::Regex> =
-    once_cell::sync::Lazy::new(|| {
-        fancy_regex::Regex::new(r"^[a-zA-Z]:[/\\]?").expect("Internal error: regex creation")
-    });
+static DRIVE_PATH_REGEX: std::sync::LazyLock<fancy_regex::Regex> = std::sync::LazyLock::new(|| {
+    fancy_regex::Regex::new(r"^[a-zA-Z]:[/\\]?").expect("Internal error: regex creation")
+});
 
 // A best-effort "does this string look kinda like a path?" function to determine whether to auto-cd
 fn looks_like_path(orig: &str) -> bool {
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
index 8d6e704ead..d4d31338b3 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-command/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ notify-debouncer-full = { workspace = true, default-features = false }
 num-format = { workspace = true }
 num-traits = { workspace = true }
 oem_cp = { workspace = true }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 open = { workspace = true }
 os_pipe = { workspace = true }
 pathdiff = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/conversions/into/value.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/conversions/into/value.rs
index 99b1daf4b7..2d5ae3b17d 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/conversions/into/value.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/conversions/into/value.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use crate::parse_date_from_string;
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
 use nu_protocol::PipelineIterator;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use regex::{Regex, RegexBuilder};
 use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct IntoValue;
@@ -271,8 +271,9 @@ const DATETIME_DMY_PATTERN: &str = r#"(?x)
         $
         "#;
 
-static DATETIME_DMY_RE: Lazy<Regex> =
-    Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(DATETIME_DMY_PATTERN).expect("datetime_dmy_pattern should be valid"));
+static DATETIME_DMY_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    Regex::new(DATETIME_DMY_PATTERN).expect("datetime_dmy_pattern should be valid")
+});
 const DATETIME_YMD_PATTERN: &str = r#"(?x)
         ^
         ['"]?                      # optional quotes
@@ -297,8 +298,9 @@ const DATETIME_YMD_PATTERN: &str = r#"(?x)
         ['"]?                      # optional quotes
         $
         "#;
-static DATETIME_YMD_RE: Lazy<Regex> =
-    Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(DATETIME_YMD_PATTERN).expect("datetime_ymd_pattern should be valid"));
+static DATETIME_YMD_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    Regex::new(DATETIME_YMD_PATTERN).expect("datetime_ymd_pattern should be valid")
+});
 //2023-03-24 16:44:17.865147299 -05:00
 const DATETIME_YMDZ_PATTERN: &str = r#"(?x)
         ^
@@ -331,23 +333,24 @@ const DATETIME_YMDZ_PATTERN: &str = r#"(?x)
         ['"]?                  # optional quotes
         $
         "#;
-static DATETIME_YMDZ_RE: Lazy<Regex> =
-    Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(DATETIME_YMDZ_PATTERN).expect("datetime_ymdz_pattern should be valid"));
+static DATETIME_YMDZ_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+    Regex::new(DATETIME_YMDZ_PATTERN).expect("datetime_ymdz_pattern should be valid")
+});
 
-static FLOAT_RE: Lazy<Regex> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static FLOAT_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     Regex::new(r"^\s*[-+]?((\d*\.\d+)([eE][-+]?\d+)?|inf|NaN|(\d+)[eE][-+]?\d+|\d+\.)$")
         .expect("float pattern should be valid")
 });
 
-static INTEGER_RE: Lazy<Regex> =
-    Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(r"^\s*-?(\d+)$").expect("integer pattern should be valid"));
+static INTEGER_RE: LazyLock<Regex> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| Regex::new(r"^\s*-?(\d+)$").expect("integer pattern should be valid"));
 
-static INTEGER_WITH_DELIMS_RE: Lazy<Regex> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static INTEGER_WITH_DELIMS_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     Regex::new(r"^\s*-?(\d{1,3}([,_]\d{3})+)$")
         .expect("integer with delimiters pattern should be valid")
 });
 
-static BOOLEAN_RE: Lazy<Regex> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static BOOLEAN_RE: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     RegexBuilder::new(r"^\s*(true)$|^(false)$")
         .case_insensitive(true)
         .build()
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ansi/ansi_.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ansi/ansi_.rs
index a7bb37036f..fe66cb9e15 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ansi/ansi_.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ansi/ansi_.rs
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 use nu_ansi_term::*;
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
 use nu_protocol::{engine::StateWorkingSet, Signals};
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct AnsiCommand;
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ struct AnsiCode {
 }
 
 #[rustfmt::skip]
-static CODE_LIST: Lazy<Vec<AnsiCode>> = Lazy::new(|| { vec![
+static CODE_LIST: LazyLock<Vec<AnsiCode>> = LazyLock::new(|| { vec![
     AnsiCode{ short_name: Some("g"), long_name: "green", code: Color::Green.prefix().to_string()},
     AnsiCode{ short_name: Some("gb"), long_name: "green_bold", code: Color::Green.bold().prefix().to_string()},
     AnsiCode{ short_name: Some("gu"), long_name: "green_underline", code: Color::Green.underline().prefix().to_string()},
@@ -494,8 +494,8 @@ static CODE_LIST: Lazy<Vec<AnsiCode>> = Lazy::new(|| { vec![
     ]
 });
 
-static CODE_MAP: Lazy<HashMap<&'static str, &'static str>> =
-    Lazy::new(|| build_ansi_hashmap(&CODE_LIST));
+static CODE_MAP: LazyLock<HashMap<&'static str, &'static str>> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| build_ansi_hashmap(&CODE_LIST));
 
 impl Command for AnsiCommand {
     fn name(&self) -> &str {
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ulimit.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ulimit.rs
index 871633efc4..b908e8b3c1 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ulimit.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/platform/ulimit.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use nix::sys::resource::{rlim_t, Resource, RLIM_INFINITY};
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 /// An object contains resource related parameters
 struct ResourceInfo<'a> {
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ impl<'a> Default for ResourceInfo<'a> {
     }
 }
 
-static RESOURCE_ARRAY: Lazy<Vec<ResourceInfo>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static RESOURCE_ARRAY: LazyLock<Vec<ResourceInfo>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     let resources = [
         #[cfg(any(target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "dragonfly"))]
         (
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/char_.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/char_.rs
index 889efa2c27..ef27d221d8 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/char_.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/char_.rs
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ use indexmap::{indexmap, IndexMap};
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
 
 use nu_protocol::Signals;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use std::collections::HashSet;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 // Character used to separate directories in a Path Environment variable on windows is ";"
 #[cfg(target_family = "windows")]
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const ENV_PATH_SEPARATOR_CHAR: char = ':';
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Char;
 
-static CHAR_MAP: Lazy<IndexMap<&'static str, String>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static CHAR_MAP: LazyLock<IndexMap<&'static str, String>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     indexmap! {
         // These are some regular characters that either can't be used or
         // it's just easier to use them like this.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static CHAR_MAP: Lazy<IndexMap<&'static str, String>> = Lazy::new(|| {
     }
 });
 
-static NO_OUTPUT_CHARS: Lazy<HashSet<&'static str>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static NO_OUTPUT_CHARS: LazyLock<HashSet<&'static str>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     [
         // If the character is in the this set, we don't output it to prevent
         // the broken of `char --list` command table format and alignment.
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/encode_decode/decode.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/encode_decode/decode.rs
index 169667645d..485cc98671 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/strings/encode_decode/decode.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/strings/encode_decode/decode.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 use nu_engine::command_prelude::*;
 use oem_cp::decode_string_complete_table;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 // create a lazycell of all the code_table "Complete" code pages
 // the commented out code pages are "Incomplete", which means they
 // are stored as Option<char> and not &[char; 128]
-static OEM_DECODE: Lazy<HashMap<usize, &[char; 128]>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static OEM_DECODE: LazyLock<HashMap<usize, &[char; 128]>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     let mut m = HashMap::new();
     m.insert(437, &oem_cp::code_table::DECODING_TABLE_CP437);
     // m.insert(720, &oem_cp::code_table::DECODING_TABLE_CP720);
diff --git a/crates/nu-command/src/viewers/icons.rs b/crates/nu-command/src/viewers/icons.rs
index db3adb153c..5ab11ed213 100644
--- a/crates/nu-command/src/viewers/icons.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-command/src/viewers/icons.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use nu_protocol::{ShellError, Span};
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 use std::{collections::HashMap, path::Path};
 
 // Attribution: Thanks exa. Most of this file is taken from around here
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ impl Icons {
 //         .unwrap_or_default()
 // }
 
-static MAP_BY_NAME: Lazy<HashMap<&'static str, char>> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static MAP_BY_NAME: LazyLock<HashMap<&'static str, char>> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     [
         (".Trash", '\u{f1f8}'),             // 
         (".atom", '\u{e764}'),              // 
diff --git a/crates/nu-explore/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-explore/Cargo.toml
index 4a62816379..da3beb68b8 100644
--- a/crates/nu-explore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-explore/Cargo.toml
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ log = { workspace = true }
 terminal_size = { workspace = true }
 strip-ansi-escapes = { workspace = true }
 crossterm = { workspace = true }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 ratatui = { workspace = true }
 ansi-str = { workspace = true }
 unicode-width = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-explore/src/commands/help.rs b/crates/nu-explore/src/commands/help.rs
index 721c2924a5..63c24969ec 100644
--- a/crates/nu-explore/src/commands/help.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-explore/src/commands/help.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use nu_protocol::{
     Value,
 };
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
 pub struct HelpCmd {}
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ impl HelpCmd {
     }
 }
 
-static HELP_MESSAGE: Lazy<String> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static HELP_MESSAGE: LazyLock<String> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     let title = nu_ansi_term::Style::new().bold().underline();
     let code = nu_ansi_term::Style::new().bold().fg(Color::Blue);
 
diff --git a/crates/nu-system/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-system/Cargo.toml
index bf83b9155e..4ac5cccb8d 100644
--- a/crates/nu-system/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-system/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ mach2 = { workspace = true }
 [target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
 chrono = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["clock"] }
 ntapi = "0.4"
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 windows = { workspace = true, features = [
   "Wdk_System_SystemServices",
   "Wdk_System_Threading",
diff --git a/crates/nu-system/src/windows.rs b/crates/nu-system/src/windows.rs
index cd689b77c4..59e2a77751 100644
--- a/crates/nu-system/src/windows.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-system/src/windows.rs
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ use libc::c_void;
 use ntapi::ntrtl::RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS;
 use ntapi::ntwow64::{PEB32, RTL_USER_PROCESS_PARAMETERS32};
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::ffi::OsString;
@@ -17,6 +16,7 @@ use std::os::windows::ffi::OsStringExt;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::ptr;
 use std::ptr::null_mut;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 use std::thread;
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ unsafe fn get_process_params(
     ))
 }
 
-static WINDOWS_8_1_OR_NEWER: Lazy<bool> = Lazy::new(|| unsafe {
+static WINDOWS_8_1_OR_NEWER: LazyLock<bool> = LazyLock::new(|| unsafe {
     let mut version_info: OSVERSIONINFOEXW = MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init();
 
     version_info.dwOSVersionInfoSize = std::mem::size_of::<OSVERSIONINFOEXW>() as u32;
diff --git a/crates/nu-table/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-table/Cargo.toml
index 2bce1125f1..b0fdf92273 100644
--- a/crates/nu-table/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-table/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ nu-utils = { path = "../nu-utils", version = "0.99.2" }
 nu-engine = { path = "../nu-engine", version = "0.99.2" }
 nu-color-config = { path = "../nu-color-config", version = "0.99.2" }
 nu-ansi-term = { workspace = true }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 fancy-regex = { workspace = true }
 tabled = { workspace = true, features = ["ansi"], default-features = false }
 terminal_size = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/nu-table/src/util.rs b/crates/nu-table/src/util.rs
index a40d6625be..feb9a59616 100644
--- a/crates/nu-table/src/util.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-table/src/util.rs
@@ -91,12 +91,14 @@ fn colorize_lead_trail_space(
 fn colorize_space_one(text: &str, lead: Option<ANSIStr<'_>>, trail: Option<ANSIStr<'_>>) -> String {
     use fancy_regex::Captures;
     use fancy_regex::Regex;
-    use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+    use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
-    static RE_LEADING: Lazy<Regex> =
-        Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(r"(?m)(?P<beginsp>^\s+)").expect("error with leading space regex"));
-    static RE_TRAILING: Lazy<Regex> =
-        Lazy::new(|| Regex::new(r"(?m)(?P<endsp>\s+$)").expect("error with trailing space regex"));
+    static RE_LEADING: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+        Regex::new(r"(?m)(?P<beginsp>^\s+)").expect("error with leading space regex")
+    });
+    static RE_TRAILING: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
+        Regex::new(r"(?m)(?P<endsp>\s+$)").expect("error with trailing space regex")
+    });
 
     let mut buf = text.to_owned();
 
diff --git a/crates/nu-utils/Cargo.toml b/crates/nu-utils/Cargo.toml
index d4639805ea..2c2cb2b10d 100644
--- a/crates/nu-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/nu-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ fancy-regex = { workspace = true }
 lscolors = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["nu-ansi-term"] }
 log = { workspace = true }
 num-format = { workspace = true }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 strip-ansi-escapes = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
 sys-locale = "0.3"
diff --git a/crates/nu-utils/src/quoting.rs b/crates/nu-utils/src/quoting.rs
index f194095ee6..baff52caeb 100644
--- a/crates/nu-utils/src/quoting.rs
+++ b/crates/nu-utils/src/quoting.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 use fancy_regex::Regex;
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 // This hits, in order:
 // • Any character of []:`{}#'";()|$,
 // • Any digit (\d)
 // • Any whitespace (\s)
 // • Case-insensitive sign-insensitive float "keywords" inf, infinity and nan.
-static NEEDS_QUOTING_REGEX: Lazy<Regex> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static NEEDS_QUOTING_REGEX: LazyLock<Regex> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     Regex::new(r#"[\[\]:`\{\}#'";\(\)\|\$,\d\s]|(?i)^[+\-]?(inf(inity)?|nan)$"#)
         .expect("internal error: NEEDS_QUOTING_REGEX didn't compile")
 });