as in solitaries
a person who lives away from others
St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace
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Recent Examples of hermits
The cautious hermits of the KMT do not attempt to forecast the future.
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Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermits
isolates
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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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The result is a five-phage product capable of killing a broad range of Enterobacter isolates.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Hermits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermits. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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