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
  • A little solitude can do wonders to quiet your brain from the chaos of day-to-day life.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2026
  • In James Mangold’s The Wolverine, Logan has retreated to the Yukon to live in solitude.
    Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The luxury pods — complete with lie-flat beds and sliding privacy doors — could be entirely off-limits when departure day rolls around, sitting completely empty at 35,000 feet.
    Edward Russell, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Privacy-preserving techniques such as differential privacy, federated learning, and on-device modeling let a publisher predict reader behavior without ever assembling an identifiable profile in a central warehouse.
    Sandy Carter, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • But data shows a 95% reduction in loneliness and isolation, a 97% increase in health and wellness and an 80% increase in overall quality of life for older adults who use the technology.
    Jennifer Bisram, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Iran’s regime can withstand an American blockade for some time, but sustained isolation would steadily raise the economic and political cost of refusing an acceptable settlement.
    Colin Pascal, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • OpenAI has faced scrutiny over concerns that ChatGPT risks exposing young people to inappropriate content, exacerbating loneliness or inhibiting learning.
    Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
  • At the same time, 40% reported experiencing stress, 23% reported sadness, 22% anger and 22% loneliness.
    Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Playing for the Dodgers at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field, Robinson effectively ended more than five decades of segregation in the sport.
    Riley Jones, Footwear News, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Rosenwald family resources helped provide the facilities that made possible the accomplishments of the Tuskegee airmen, and supported NAACP legal efforts that ultimately overturned school segregation.
    Harold Pollack, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026

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“Separateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separateness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2026.

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