singleness

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Recent Examples of singleness And to more women today, intentional singleness is worth every penny. Essence, 10 Feb. 2026 The actress hasn't spoken publicly about her dating life, aside from a few TikTok videos poking fun at her singleness. Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026 Bureaucrats are doomed to fail pioneering efforts requiring singleness of purpose and continuity of effort especially having risky and unforeseen outcomes of competing interests. Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025 Franklin, who is also a minister, was inspired to tell this particular Bible story after preaching a sermon series on singleness and relationships. Giana Levy, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for singleness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for singleness
Noun
  • Celebrating our oneness together!
    ‘Pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
  • Founded in the 19th century in Iran, the faith centers around principles of humanity and oneness.
    Adam Duxter, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Archaeologists then debated whether the tunnel was some kind of underground agricultural or industrial installation, but its scale and uniqueness in the region ruled out that possibility.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
  • Projecting a player’s trajectory isn’t a perfect science because there’s so much uniqueness to sort through.
    Shayna Goldman, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Still, many scientists haven’t ruled out runaway RSI, sometimes called the singularity.
    Matthew Hutson, IEEE Spectrum, 7 May 2026
  • Some works don’t need to be reimagined to remain relevant, and their singularity should be reason enough alone for the people most inspired by them to leave them untouched.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • The melting pot implied that citizens gradually shed the distinctiveness of their traditions in order to become fully American.
    Ari Berman, New York Daily News, 15 May 2026
  • The Pulitzer board encourages its juries to engage in both robust debate and its own inquiries into the distinctiveness of all entries.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • But reporting claimed that the peculiarity of his campaign stretched far beyond his online posts.
    Amethyst Martinez, USA Today, 15 May 2026
  • This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • Although jazz can be powerfully expressive of a composer or musician’s personal idiosyncrasies and attitude (think of Miles Davis or Sun Ra), blues is the domain of raw emotion.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 15 May 2026
  • That candor is refreshing, and the film’s conclusions about accepting the idiosyncrasies of one’s individual eros are quite moving.
    Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • The second is that chatbots, which mimic emotional intimacy and tend toward sycophancy, warp how children forge their selfhood and relationships.
    Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Through every iteration of selfhood.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Apr. 2026

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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