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Recent Examples of hermit
George lives something of a hermit’s life in Hudson.
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Then Birdie falls in love with Arthur Neilsen, a mountainside hermit with a scarred face.
—Margot Harrison, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Our local guide, Joseph, noted that the once dapper distinguished Gaudi in advanced years became a disheveled hermit living in the church’s workshop.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
Then Birdie falls in love with Arthur Neilsen, a mountainside hermit with a scarred face.
—Margot Harrison, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2025
Our local guide, Joseph, noted that the once dapper distinguished Gaudi in advanced years became a disheveled hermit living in the church’s workshop.
—Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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However, Local Law 42, the law limiting solitary, requires 14 hours per day of out-of-cell time.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Sweat was then confined to 23-hour-a-day solitary at Five Points Correctional Center, though he was subsequently transferred to Attica Correctional after trying to bribe Five Points officials.—
Kenny Herzog,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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Dylan earned the reputation of a recluse despite a lifetime of routinely touring the country and performing before thousands of people.—
Jake Goodrick,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2025
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Since the band broke up in 2011, Meg White, its drummer, has become one the great recluses of 21st-century pop, rarely seen in public and declining all interview requests — which would make any possible appearance by her a major coup for the Rock Hall.—
Ben Sisario,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates can encode plastic-degrading enzymes that allow survival on plastic and augment biofilm formation.—
Ian Randall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 May 2025
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There was also a cluster of hanta isolates in San Diego in 2018.—
Judy Stone,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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