as in wallflower
a shy or reserved person
although interested in the public welfare, he was too much of an introvert to consider personally running for political office
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Recent Examples of introvert
However, in the wild, the algae are the ocean’s introverts, and only glow when they are bothered, like jolted by a crashing wave or the hull of a passing boat.
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
Sandstrom describes herself as an introvert who used to avoid small talk with acquaintances or strangers.
—Markham Heid, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
Jonsson plays Taylor, a watchful, aged-beyond-his-years introvert who has spent 13 years behind bars on a manslaughter charge — missing almost the entire life of his teenage son Adam (Cole Martin), from whom the boy’s mother is determined to keep him estranged.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Osaka, the pioneering introvert, is an icon.
—Ava Wallace, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
Sandstrom describes herself as an introvert who used to avoid small talk with acquaintances or strangers.
—Markham Heid, Time, 28 Apr. 2026
Jonsson plays Taylor, a watchful, aged-beyond-his-years introvert who has spent 13 years behind bars on a manslaughter charge — missing almost the entire life of his teenage son Adam (Cole Martin), from whom the boy’s mother is determined to keep him estranged.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 17 Apr. 2026
Osaka, the pioneering introvert, is an icon.
—Ava Wallace, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for introvert
Noun
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The novel follows Harriet Bancroft, a bookish wallflower compiling a dictionary of slang.—
Angelina Mazza,
Vulture,
19 June 2026
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Its high jewelry has never been for wallflowers, and that notion is inherent to one of the crowning statement pieces, the Fortune necklace.—
Jill Newman,
Robb Report,
18 June 2026
Noun
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Because while a mouse embryo can race through major developmental changes in a matter of hours or days, catshark embryos develop over roughly 175 days, giving researchers an unusually detailed window into transitional stages that are normally difficult to capture in rapidly-developing mammals.—
Melissa Cristina Márquez,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Researchers at the Guha Lab at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, ran a preclinical mouse study published in Nature Communications.—
Ryan Brennan,
Sacbee.com,
18 June 2026
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“Introvert.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/introvert. Accessed 24 Jun. 2026.
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