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Recent Examples of homebody
For more picks to keep the homebody on your shopping list cozy this year, check out our favorite finds below.
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Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2025
One of our editors’ favorite brands, Quince, is currently running an early Black Friday sale with rare savings of up to 30 percent on select luggage, travel bags, and clothing items perfect for frequent fliers and homebodies alike.
—Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2025
Now 12, Tucker is described as friendly but a bit of a homebody.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the past few years, Teasdale has grown to embrace the slow mornings and simple comforts that come with being a homebody, and Moisturizer, Wet Leg’s bright, celestial second album, captures small-hours moments, sofa snogs and falling into the buoyant daze of doing nothing all day.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
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Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 3 Dec. 2025
One of our editors’ favorite brands, Quince, is currently running an early Black Friday sale with rare savings of up to 30 percent on select luggage, travel bags, and clothing items perfect for frequent fliers and homebodies alike.
—Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2025
Now 12, Tucker is described as friendly but a bit of a homebody.
—Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
Over the past few years, Teasdale has grown to embrace the slow mornings and simple comforts that come with being a homebody, and Moisturizer, Wet Leg’s bright, celestial second album, captures small-hours moments, sofa snogs and falling into the buoyant daze of doing nothing all day.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for homebody
hermit
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At the same time, she becomes threatened by a minor scandal involving her dopey husband (Jack Lowden), all while dealing with her dysfunctional family, including the serial-cheater father (Woody Harrelson) who reenters her life and a brother (Spike Fearn) who has become something of a hermit.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
12 Dec. 2025
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On Monday morning, well-wishers, many wearing rain-coats, lined the roads behind a metal railing under drizzly skies as his convoy made its way through the winding roads near Beirut to the mountain-top tomb of a 19th century hermit now recognized as Saint Charbel Makhlouf.—
NPR,
NPR,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Homebody.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/homebody. Accessed 19 Jan. 2026.
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