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
  • Two Ships is thus a narrative for our time, when the aspirational vision of oneness has given way to intractable twoness.
    James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026
  • Celebrating our oneness together!
    ‘Pemi Aguda, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • That spirit survives today as Lawrence’s historic Massachusetts Street fights a new battle to keep big chains out and local uniqueness in.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
  • No doubt many other religious institutions have seized on the World Cup with these and other emphases, including evangelizing and otherwise stressing their uniqueness.
    Vahe Gregorian July 10, Kansas City Star, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • That region is the light-trapping outer boundary of the black hole known as the event horizon, which prevents us from ever seeing the singularity at the heart of the black hole or receiving information from it.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 July 2026
  • The post sparked much debate about whether a pause was possible given the financial incentives, whether RSI would finally produce some version of the AGI singularity or utopia, and whether RSI was even possible at all.
    Arianna Huffington, Time, 29 June 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
  • Build an environment where belonging and distinctiveness can coexist.
    Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Cheuk urged directors to lean into their creative distinctiveness.
    Jenny S. Li, Variety, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Szymborska draws upon the semantic peculiarities of her native tongue to underscore the point.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
  • The subject does not have a lot of hard-and-fast rules; wars share common characteristics but each conflict has its own peculiarities and exigent circumstances.
    Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Noun
  • Nolan said that Odysseus’ idiosyncrasies were challenging to adapt.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • The humor—dry, humane, occasionally absurd—is ever-present … The Vermont setting, spare and bracing, acts as a quiet amplifier of these idiosyncrasies, while Mason remains attuned to the natural world.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Noun
  • Neptune can represent imagination, spirituality, idealism and illusion, while Aries is concerned with selfhood, courage and initiation.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
  • Our true nature, or selfhood, is created by Spirit and is wholly loved, complete, and sound.
    Alistair Budd, Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2026

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 21 Jul. 2026.

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