friendless

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Adjective
  • Its influence on the withdrawn protagonist, Jamie (played by Owen Cooper), is largely implied.
    Paula Mejía, The Atlantic, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The withdrawn San Francisco drama, about lonely nonbinary nanny and restaurant server Cass (Asia Kate Dillon), is simple in its presentation, but disguises numerous layers to its story.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Scrape away leaves, twigs, and grass within a 10-foot diameter circle from fire ]Have firefighting tools nearby and handy; Never leave a fire unattended; Carefully dispose of hot coal/ashes; Drown all fires; Carefully extinguish smoking materials.
    Staff report, Hartford Courant, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Essentially, Fred confirms that the reel disappeared after it was loaded in, most likely during a 20-minute stretch when the van transporting it was left unattended.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The Mad Men echoes are tough to shake, too: There are shots in here, like Coop looking forlorn in an elevator, that might as well be episodic photos from Mad Men.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 11 Apr. 2025
  • This funny, strange and fundamentally forlorn film about the city’s gentrification provided a breakout role for Jonathan Majors as a lost artistic soul.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Keep a distance from tall, isolated trees or other elevated objects.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Stay away from tall, isolated trees or other tall objects.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 27 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • There is also an outdoor adventure course, a splash zone, and non-motorized water sports at the secluded beachfront.
    Kareema Bee, Travel + Leisure, 3 May 2025
  • Without a secluded period and monitoring, officials said the birds could have been a risk for spreading zoonotic diseases, such as bird flu.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • The walk from Mercedes to Giorgio Baldi’s cloistered front door has become something of a runway for Rhianna over the years.
    Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2025
  • In spite of obvious parallels in the OVO stars’ individual and shared bodies of work, the album $$$4U’s mind-set most resembles Taylor Swift’s Reputation, the cloistered R&B pivot released after lashing out at the erstwhile Kardashian-Wests backfired.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 18 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Community service for an increasingly lonely, isolated society?
    Nate Rogers, Los Angeles Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • According to recent Gallup data, approximately 20% of U.S. adults report feeling lonely every day.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 21 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Again the solitary loss here, against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, was understandable, even if the poor performance was not.
    Simon Johnson, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • In the spring of 2022, Williams was uprooted from his solitary world and transferred to a prison in San Diego County.
    Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
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“Friendless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friendless. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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