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Recent Examples of recluse
Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Reviews have skewed negative (a 57% on Rotten Tomatoes) for the film, which follows the elder Day-Lewis as a recluse and former British soldier who has been living in isolation in the woods for two decades when his brother (Sean Bean) unexpectedly shows up.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025
How to identify The legs of a brown recluse span roughly the size of a quarter to a half-dollar.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Last autumn, six months after beginning her solo career, the singer and Little Mix member pretty much resigned herself to life as a recluse, spending the majority of her time in her Cheshire house.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
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Noun
This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Reviews have skewed negative (a 57% on Rotten Tomatoes) for the film, which follows the elder Day-Lewis as a recluse and former British soldier who has been living in isolation in the woods for two decades when his brother (Sean Bean) unexpectedly shows up.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 5 Oct. 2025
How to identify The legs of a brown recluse span roughly the size of a quarter to a half-dollar.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 2 Oct. 2025
Last autumn, six months after beginning her solo career, the singer and Little Mix member pretty much resigned herself to life as a recluse, spending the majority of her time in her Cheshire house.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recluse
Noun
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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
Adjective
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Glaser said to the famously reclusive megastar.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
12 Jan. 2026
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The novel tells, among other things, the story of a friendship between Helen DeWitt (at certain points apparently fictionalized as a reclusive, suicidal writer named Rachel Zozanian) and the tabloid journalist Ilya Gridneff.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
1 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
31 Aug. 2025
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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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“Recluse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recluse. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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