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Recent Examples of hermit
Luke Skywalker was a hermit living on a remote island.
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Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Their dictatorial hermit nation is often called Africa’s North Korea.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
At the time of his death in 1993, Phoenix was nearing the end of filming Dark Blood — a Dutch thriller film in which Phoenix played a hermit who takes a couple hostage while preparing for the end of the world.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
However, once a paranoid hermit nation of Europe, after 1992 Albania began to emerge from its fortress mindset.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
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Anna Russell, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Their dictatorial hermit nation is often called Africa’s North Korea.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
At the time of his death in 1993, Phoenix was nearing the end of filming Dark Blood — a Dutch thriller film in which Phoenix played a hermit who takes a couple hostage while preparing for the end of the world.
—Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
However, once a paranoid hermit nation of Europe, after 1992 Albania began to emerge from its fortress mindset.
—Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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Set in Atlanta, Thompson plays a news anchor named Anna who is becoming something of a recluse due to her job, but she is drawn back to her hometown following a murder.—
Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Jan. 2026
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Although Newton himself was a recluse, a circle of zealous Newtonian men of science, described by historians as devoted disciples and even evangelists for Newton’s natural philosophy, took his new theories on the road.—
Beth DuFault,
The Conversation,
15 Dec. 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
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In director Charlie Polinger’s drama, Joel Edgerton plays the coach of a swim camp where the boys, led by the cruel, wisecracking Jake (Kayo Martin), isolate and bully Eli (Kenny Rasmussen) by pretending that his skin rash is the plague and refusing to speak to him.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
9 Jan. 2026
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The gun-owning Susan Lorincz isolates and relentlessly harasses and targets Ajike Owens’ family, calling police countless times about such infractions as kids playing on the lawn and them just being kids.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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