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Recent Examples of hermit
On Monday morning, well-wishers, many wearing rain-coats, lined the roads behind a metal railing under drizzly skies as his convoy made its way through the winding roads near Beirut to the mountain-top tomb of a 19th century hermit now recognized as Saint Charbel Makhlouf.
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NPR, 1 Dec. 2025
His father essentially became a hermit.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
It’s purported to have gotten its name from the hermit Richard Rowe, whose family moved to the area is 1796.
—Adam Stone, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Luke Skywalker was a hermit living on a remote island.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
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NPR, 1 Dec. 2025
His father essentially became a hermit.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
It’s purported to have gotten its name from the hermit Richard Rowe, whose family moved to the area is 1796.
—Adam Stone, USA Today, 18 Nov. 2025
Luke Skywalker was a hermit living on a remote island.
—Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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The recluse toxin binds to the surface of cells and scoots along it like a lawn mower, clipping the heads off molecules on this surface.—
Matthew Cordes,
The Conversation,
6 Apr. 2026
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The villagers start blaming the recluse ‘witch’ of the village who is known to practice black magic.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Now in his 40s, Frank has been in prison for almost his whole adult life, spending 17 years in solitary for assaulting two of his fellow inmates.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
25 Jan. 2026
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Nearly four of those years were spent in solitary at ICE’s Northwest Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, where Daniel died on March 7, 2024, the report says.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
Noun
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His documentary plunges viewers into a 1996 expedition in Brazil to contact the isolate Indigenous Koruba people in the Amazon rainforest.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Mar. 2026
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Hydrolysate has the highest protein content, followed by isolate and concentrate.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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