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Nicolas Cage plays a grizzled, mournful hermit named Rob who lives in the woods of the Pacific Northwest and spends his days hunting truffles with his pig, Apple, and then trading them to big-city buyer Amir (Alex Wolff).
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 May 2025
The meditative documentary, which premiered in competition at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, follows Jake Williams, a modern-day hermit living in Scotland’s remote Highlands.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2025
Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts Date & Venue TBA Tap into the collective unconscious of a rogue’s gallery of grifters, hermits, and sociopaths with our infamous showcase of gloriously confounding cinematic curios.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Earthy and cozy Taurus season might have you in slight hermit mode, but take advantage of any social events that arise during the first week of May, as your chatty ruler Mercury will make a sweet and fun-loving connection with lucky planet Jupiter in your sign on May 5.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 May 2025
The meditative documentary, which premiered in competition at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, follows Jake Williams, a modern-day hermit living in Scotland’s remote Highlands.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2025
Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts Date & Venue TBA Tap into the collective unconscious of a rogue’s gallery of grifters, hermits, and sociopaths with our infamous showcase of gloriously confounding cinematic curios.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 May 2025
Earthy and cozy Taurus season might have you in slight hermit mode, but take advantage of any social events that arise during the first week of May, as your chatty ruler Mercury will make a sweet and fun-loving connection with lucky planet Jupiter in your sign on May 5.
—Nina Kahn, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2025
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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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Spiders More than 900 species of spiders call Texas home, including two poisonous types — the black widow and brown recluse.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 June 2025
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Between the now elderly Iris (Gabrielle Rose), who lives in a isolated fortress deep in the woods, and her recluse and largely absent mother Darlene (Rya Kihlstedt), Stefani’s life has been ruled by disappointing parental figures.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
13 May 2025
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Many companies now sell CBD oils, tinctures, or isolates that can be added to a homemade batch of lemonade.—
Matt Rozo,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
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Rigorous testing, including AI-specific penetration tests guided by NIST’s AI risk framework, is crucial, and sandboxing isolates code until validated.—
Andres Zunino,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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