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Recent Examples of hermit
Dexter is now a bit of a hermit living in the wilderness, when his past begins to catch up with him.
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The technique was initially practiced alone, but in 1260 a hermit in Perugia launched a movement, and organized processions of mass self-flagellation broke out across Italy.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Even Neil Young, known as something of a hermit, stopped in.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Everyone, to some degree, is a hermit, just wanting to find love and reconciliation or validation with someone else.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
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James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The technique was initially practiced alone, but in 1260 a hermit in Perugia launched a movement, and organized processions of mass self-flagellation broke out across Italy.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Even Neil Young, known as something of a hermit, stopped in.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
Everyone, to some degree, is a hermit, just wanting to find love and reconciliation or validation with someone else.
—Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 25 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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Last autumn, six months after beginning her solo career, the singer and Little Mix member pretty much resigned herself to life as a recluse, spending the majority of her time in her Cheshire house.—
Sophie Williams,
Billboard,
24 Sep. 2025
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How to identify them The legs of a brown recluse stretch to about the size of a quarter to a half-dollar, according to the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service.—
Evan Mealins,
Nashville Tennessean,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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However, Freirich noted that absorption depends on the form of whey used, such as hydrolyzed or isolate, and cautioned that not everyone metabolizes protein in the same way.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Hydrolysate has the highest protein content, followed by isolate and concentrate.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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