as in solidarity
the state of being completely united with or a part of someone or something
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I felt a sense of oneness with nature. a feeling of spiritual oneness with others
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Recent Examples of oneness
What’s stripped out at its core—and this is the deepest core of the contemplative traditions—is a non-dual realization of wisdom, an experience of oneness.
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
Survivors who felt their suffering was shared reported a stronger sense of oneness, with those groups.
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Claire White,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Explore oneness with community, but don’t force anything.
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Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
Explore oneness with community but don’t force anything.
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Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2026
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Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
Survivors who felt their suffering was shared reported a stronger sense of oneness, with those groups.
—
Claire White,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
Explore oneness with community, but don’t force anything.
—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
9 Jan. 2026
Explore oneness with community but don’t force anything.
—
Tribune Content Agency,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for oneness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oneness
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In a show of solidarity, several high-ranking Ukrainian officials also returned their Polish state decorations.
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For the Arribas family, the hours following the earthquakes were filled with anxiety and solidarity.
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Raise the Future offers Family Support Services for foster, kinship and adoptive families.
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Two New Yorkers from the boroughs who shared the kinship of a similar background.
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The Iranian regime’s apparent hesitancy to resume in-person talks is a significant step back from the high-level talks that took place in Switzerland earlier this month following the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the countries.
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So the career of saying this film, not that one, gives way to a bitter understanding that the medium was indifferent to attempts at discrimination and prospects of a pantheon.
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It's called cognitive empathy, not to be confused with emotional empathy.
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In a field where founders are taught to move fast and break things, Gen Z is taking a new approach, engineering with empathy.
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Stop seeking harmony and start seeking the truth.
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Soul Coughing bassist Sebastian Steinberg contributes upright bass, Rob Moose supplies string arrangements, Caroline Shaw handles vocal arrangements and harmonies, and Blake Mills, Christian Lee Hutson, Marshall Vore and Nate Walcott all make appearances.
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The design and materials of devices such as bone saws, fleams and scarifacators – used to bleed veins and skin surfaces – illustrate the close affinity of humans with other animals.
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Congress has also shown an affinity for weighing in on sports disputes—consider the airtime members of Congress receive when sermonizing on the state of college sports.
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And, for all the theater of the hearing and Wyper’s expressions of sympathy with aldermen, the Stonepeak executive didn’t offer any meaningful concessions to make this obnoxious meter deal more palatable for Chicagoans.
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No premature judgment and no overwrought sympathy here.
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Esther Perel could have rapport with a dead plant or be a cult leader.
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This approach changes how collaboration works, because trust is established through verification rather than reputation or rapport.
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“Oneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oneness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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