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
  • As the moon squares off with Saturn, solitude and self-reflection are crucial.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Where Hsu’s early work was filled with the people in his life, his work over the past decade is marked by a kind of solitude.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • That's shifting the organizational structure, giving many security chiefs a direct line to the CEO instead of the chief information officer, said Meredith Griffanti, global head of cybersecurity and data privacy communications at FTI Consulting.
    Samantha Subin, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Namibia cited privacy, sovereignty and legal concerns for its decision.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The new study challenges assumptions about immigrant community isolation, Wilson added.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But the move is a symbolic expression of displeasure with Israel by some of its closest allies, and new sign of its growing isolation as a result of the Gaza war.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The band might seriously hold an inkling to the cure to the male loneliness crisis.
    Marshall Shaffer, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
  • On the one hand, there’s a fascination with collective joy and the forms of vernacular invention that aspire to it; on the other, there’s an underlying melancholy that points to the inevitability of isolation, an epistemology of loneliness.
    Pablo Larios, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Each match requires bespoke safety measures, so the level of segregation required against Liverpool is believed to have been a factor in why the match was not permitted to reach capacity, despite being a ‘sell-out’.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • The classic became one of the premier showcases for Black college football during segregation.
    D’Joumbarey A. Moreau, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026

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“Separateness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separateness. Accessed 11 Sep. 2026.

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