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
  • There was no other identity or activity – only the oneness of creator and His spiritual expression, man.
    Sylvia Messner, Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Moving beyond basic cost-saving motivations, modern apparel resale is heavily embedded with the thrill of treasure hunting as well as a psychological desire for uniqueness.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 July 2026
  • Ohtani’s name came up slightly less often — 10 times — perhaps because the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar has a uniqueness that requires more than one tool.
    Chad Jennings, New York Times, 16 July 2026
Noun
  • Part of that acceleration echoes the broader capability debate, including Sam Altman's own claim this summer that AI had already entered the singularity.
    Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In Kurzweil’s version, the singularity involves an unmistakable break in which machine intelligence overtakes humanity and technological progress becomes impossible to predict.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 27 July 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
  • In a portfolio of consumer brands, each brand's value lies substantially in its distinctiveness.
    Gustaf Lundberg Toresson, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Ultimately, though, distinctiveness is an asset for an action star.
    Judy Berman, Time, 15 July 2026
Noun
  • And on that field, however, there are some peculiarities in the Hungarian tax system.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • Szymborska draws upon the semantic peculiarities of her native tongue to underscore the point.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
Noun
  • If LRMs can supercharge mathematics research the way AlphaFold did for computational biology, this line of thinking goes, why not embrace them, idiosyncrasies and all, and just verify the results?
    John Pavlus, Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2026
  • Nolan said that Odysseus’ idiosyncrasies were challenging to adapt.
    Skyler Trepel, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • This is, at times, a wrenching novel, strewn with broken bodies, but its atrocities never overwhelm its faith in creaturely communion, and in grief and longing that clarify, rather than obscure, one’s desires and selfhood.
    Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • Neptune can represent imagination, spirituality, idealism and illusion, while Aries is concerned with selfhood, courage and initiation.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 5 Aug. 2026.

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