separateness

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Recent Examples of separateness These immigrants, who first settled the backcountry of Pennsylvania before pushing farther to the western and southern frontier, brought with them a cultural and linguistic separateness that had an immense impact on the speech of the American heartland. Valerie Fridland, Big Think, 21 Apr. 2026 Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness. Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025 Since becoming president of Taiwan, last May, Lai has asserted Taiwan’s separateness from the mainland and muted his predecessor’s efforts to reassure Beijing. Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2025 Its geographic remoteness has cultivated a sense of separateness, with ancient inhabitants speaking a distinct dialect of Hawaiian. Meredith Bryan, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for separateness
Noun
  • Ferlinghetti’s friendship with Jack Kerouac — and his invitations to escape the Bay Area for the solitude of the Big Sur coast — tied the poet and the novelist to the same stretch of rugged landscape that still draws tourists and artists today.
    David Caraccio Updated July 13, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2026
  • Outside of Saturday afternoon Mass, there’s little break to the solitude.
    Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Noun
  • Hamid Khan, an organizer with the privacy advocacy group Stop LAPD Spying, said that his organization has been showing up at police commission meetings to complain about Flock since early 2025.
    Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
  • The Idaho Statesman’s top stories for Thursday and Friday spanned criminal defense, patient privacy, development and executions.
    Chadd Cripe. Produced with AI assistance, Idaho Statesman, 11 July 2026
Noun
  • The all-new Tokyo Design Studio Niobium Concept 1 (TDS MSNB1) was born from that same style of category-decimating experimentation back in the days of isolation and face masks.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 July 2026
  • When selecting an innerspring mattress, look for pocketed coils, which move independently to improve motion isolation.
    Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 14 July 2026
Noun
  • The onset of more organ soloing by Emmett over twin guitars is just the barrage needed to slam home the paranoia and loneliness in a song that alternates self-effacement with self-defensive allegations of gaslighting and abandonment.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • This crucial system is challenged by rising workplace loneliness and a scarcity mindset, eroding casual favor-giving.
    Jasmine Browley, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • His speech was part of a campaign to fight housing segregation in Chicago.
    Adam Harrington, CBS News, 13 July 2026
  • Spending limits, segregation of duties, approval thresholds and mandatory human checkpoints—these have to be built into the system so the agent can't route around them.
    Rahul Bhatia, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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“Separateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separateness. Accessed 16 Jul. 2026.

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