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Recent Examples of recluse
NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
He is characterized in the media as a recluse, who likes to bike, and doesn’t smoke, drink, watch TV or listen to the radio.
—Lex Harvey, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Related article Reported Swedish shooter lived as recluse in quiet apartment block
AR-15 rifles have been permitted for hunting since 2023 and Strommer said around 3,500 have been licensed since then.
—Reuters, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
From that moment on, Lennon effectively became a recluse, rarely seen in public and never to tour again.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Kaczynski was an anti-technology recluse who killed three people with mail bombs from 1978 to 1995.
—NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
He is characterized in the media as a recluse, who likes to bike, and doesn’t smoke, drink, watch TV or listen to the radio.
—Lex Harvey, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
Related article Reported Swedish shooter lived as recluse in quiet apartment block
AR-15 rifles have been permitted for hunting since 2023 and Strommer said around 3,500 have been licensed since then.
—Reuters, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025
From that moment on, Lennon effectively became a recluse, rarely seen in public and never to tour again.
—Laurie Gwen Shapiro, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for recluse
Recent Examples of Synonyms for recluse
Noun
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Sure, the $150,000 price tag might make your wallet wince, but for the chance to be a high-tech hermit with all the comforts of home?—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Sure, the $150,000 price tag might make your wallet wince, but for the chance to be a high-tech hermit with all the comforts of home?—
Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report,
FOXNews.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Also new to the list and appearing at No. 5: the Krishnan family, heirs of a telecom-to-energy empire built by reclusive billionaire Ananda Krishnan, who died in November at age 86.—
Anu Raghunathan,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and earned a six-minute standing ovation, Fraser plays a reclusive writing professor, Charlie, attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughter.—
Diana Pearl,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Feb. 2024
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“Recluse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recluse. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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