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
  • Modern Jewish thought, particularly under the pressure of science, has pushed oneness to its definitional limits.
    Manvir Singh, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The world first fell in love with her as a contestant in the RuPaul’s Drag Race multiverse, where her razor-sharp charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent turned her into one of the franchise’s most beloved queens.
    Todd Plummer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 June 2026
  • The collection is produced in extremely limited quantities, spotlighting the uniqueness of each material while maintaining the exclusivity at the core of the collaboration.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Connecting with retailers, stylists and editors who appreciate the singularity and variety of colored gemstones and who value jewelry as a form of self expression.
    Thomas Waller, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • But Hassabis sees the increase in machine autonomy as one of the key steps on the gradual march toward the singularity.
    Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Other huge fashion conglomerates like LVMH and Kering have grown in such a way that sometimes the individual brands lose their distinctiveness.
    Dave Schilling Contributing Follow, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • In this role, Ken will lead CNBC Digital and help elevate the ambition, distinctiveness and impact of our journalism across platforms.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • What remains is scar tissue, shaped by the peculiarities of individual healing.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
  • In a California electoral peculiarity, every single governor since 1942 has served more than one term.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • That sometimes meant staking a claim to micro-genre legacies, but just as often meant leaning hard into idiosyncrasies.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Instead, volumes seem to be correlated to game idiosyncrasies, such as overtime, narrow leads and, as mentioned, the locations of the teams playing.
    Alex Sherman,Contessa Brewer, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Aziza expands her focus beyond Emmeline Cline’s Dead Weight — another essential book about eating disorders — to create a complicated portrait of selfhood, illness, family history, and political violence.
    Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • My selfhood was partly shaped by being engaged and challenged with everything all the time, all at once.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.

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