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You only have one reaction, so you need to pick which reaction to use. Even if you had two reactions, you can only use one of them per trigger. A single Stride would only trigger a single reaction.
Fighters can get additional reactions each round to use for Attack of Opportunity with Combat Reflexes, and Boundless Reprisals gives you an extra reaction at the start of every enemy's turn.
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Say you have a monk with "stand still" or a thaumaturge with a weapon implement and its "implement interruption". Then you multi-class into fighter and take the "attack of opportunity" feat.
Now you're in combat and an opponent moves within your range, but only enough to trigger a single AoO. Can your character make 2 attacks on them, e.g. one "stand still" strike and another "attack of opportunity" strike? A RAW reading would seem to indicate so.
No.
The triggers listed in the stat blocks of reactions and some free actions limit when you can use those actions. You can use only one action in response to a given trigger. For example, if you had a reaction and a free action that both had a trigger of “your turn begins,” you could use either of them at the start of your turn—but not both. If two triggers are similar, but not identical, the GM determines whether you can use one action in response to each or whether they’re effectively the same thing. Usually, this decision will be based on what’s happening in the narrative.
This limitation of one action per trigger is per creature; more than one creature can use a reaction or free action in response to a given trigger.
In addition to that, you usually only have one Reaction to spend anyway.
More along the lines of 1e, if an opponent moves through 2 squares within your reach, can you make an AoO on them as they leave each square?
Even in 1E, you couldn't make multiple AoOs for multiple squares of movement. In the case of 2E, the rule is here:
Some reactions and free actions are triggered by a creature using an action with the move trait. The most notable example is Attack of Opportunity. Actions with the move trait can trigger reactions or free actions throughout the course of the distance traveled. Each time you exit a square (or move 5 feet if not using a grid) within a creature’s reach, your movement triggers those reactions and free actions (although no more than once per move action for a given reacting creature). If you use a move action but don’t move out of a square, the trigger instead happens at the end of that action or ability.
Some actions, such as Step, specifically state they don’t trigger reactions or free actions based on movement.
And lastly, if two separate opponents trigger an AoO, can you attack them each once?
Yes, those would be two separate triggers. But again, you'd need an ability that actually gives you extra Reactions to spend on attacks of opportunity.
Fighters have feats that do that. But it's otherwise a pretty rare ability. It's part of the tactical chess game: sometimes you provoke an attack of opportunity to make sure the opponent has none left, and your teammate can do something important.