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Recent Examples of loneliness
Solitude, mind you, not loneliness.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
To counteract his loneliness, Michell invited his friends to Thornhill.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
This can bring on feelings of sadness and loneliness and even seasonal affective disorder, a form of seasonal depression.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, found mothers forced to leave the workforce or reduce their working hours during the pandemic reported higher levels of emotional distress, especially stress (63%), loneliness (43%) and anxiety (42%).
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Our love for independence and self-reliance cannot help but be synchronous with loneliness.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Others pointed out that loneliness is a growing issue today, and AI partners might offer a sense of comfort when human connection feels out of reach.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Her rats' playfulness motivated her and eased feeling of loneliness, while her cats' soothing weight on her chest calmed her anxiety.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
At a time when loneliness and isolation are rising around the world, families—though never perfect—remain one of life’s strongest sources of stability and meaning.
—Russell M. Nelson, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
To counteract his loneliness, Michell invited his friends to Thornhill.
—Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
This can bring on feelings of sadness and loneliness and even seasonal affective disorder, a form of seasonal depression.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, found mothers forced to leave the workforce or reduce their working hours during the pandemic reported higher levels of emotional distress, especially stress (63%), loneliness (43%) and anxiety (42%).
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
Our love for independence and self-reliance cannot help but be synchronous with loneliness.
—Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
Others pointed out that loneliness is a growing issue today, and AI partners might offer a sense of comfort when human connection feels out of reach.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Her rats' playfulness motivated her and eased feeling of loneliness, while her cats' soothing weight on her chest calmed her anxiety.
—Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 5 Sep. 2025
At a time when loneliness and isolation are rising around the world, families—though never perfect—remain one of life’s strongest sources of stability and meaning.
—Russell M. Nelson, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loneliness
Noun
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Time behind bars often brings exposure to violence, isolation, and the loss of personal control, experiences that can create lingering fear, anxiety, and symptoms much like post-traumatic stress disorder.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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Scientists revealed that the nuclei of hydrogen isotopes form plasma, which, being electrically charged, can be held in isolation from the walls by a magnetic field inside the toroidal vacuum chamber of the reactor (these sorts of reactors are called tokamaks).—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025
Noun
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And solitude is killing us softly.—
Dev Patnaik,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Jen, an orphaned Gelling raised in solitude by a gentle race of creatures called the Mystics, must find the missing shard that will heal the crystal and restore balance to the universe.—
Eric E. Harrison,
Arkansas Online,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This is a telling fantasy—to feel more content in one’s dreamed aloneness than in real society.—
Hillary Kelly,
The Atlantic,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Troost Avenue had long served as a dividing line of racial segregation in Kansas City, a physical reminder of historic redlining from the Jim Crow era.—
Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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The dismantling of segregation was a profound moral and political victory.—
Ed Gaskin,
Boston Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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On the one hand, the gift of consciousness brought the glory of independence; on the other, the punishment of separateness.—
Vivian Gornick,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Seclusion and restraint The use of restraint and seclusion practices to address disabled students’ behavioral issues has increasingly become a debated issue among education specialists.—
IndyStar,
IndyStar,
8 Sep. 2025
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The film follows Misty Jones (Chastain), a former country star who comes out of seclusion to investigate the disappearance of her missing niece (Faith), herself a rising country musician.—
Justin Kroll,
Deadline,
8 Sep. 2025
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More advanced methods, including differential privacy and federated learning, allow researchers to collaborate without moving sensitive data outside hospital walls.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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Massachusetts is unusual in that state victim privacy laws bar police from releasing incident reports of rape to the public.—
Willoughby Mariano,
ProPublica,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Loneliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loneliness. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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