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Recent Examples of hermitThen 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 This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for hermit
However, Local Law 42, the law limiting solitary, requires 14 hours per day of out-of-cell time.
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Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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.
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.
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Ben Sisario,
New York Times,
28 Apr. 2025
In his report, Adams found no evidence to suggest that the two-time Oscar winner spent his final years as a recluse in his home in a gated community, guarded by his protective younger second wife.
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