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Recent Examples of singleness
Bureaucrats are doomed to fail pioneering efforts requiring singleness of purpose and continuity of effort especially having risky and unforeseen outcomes of competing interests.
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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
Par price, that is the price between the different representations ties all these forms into the singleness of money.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
In comments beneath the post, some supporters celebrated the call to embrace singleness as a valid, joyful life stage.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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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
Par price, that is the price between the different representations ties all these forms into the singleness of money.
—Vipin Bharathan, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
In comments beneath the post, some supporters celebrated the call to embrace singleness as a valid, joyful life stage.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for singleness
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The sudden flood of oxytocin accompanying the onset of the drug produces feelings of emotional communion, oneness, and openness.—
Erica Rex,
STAT,
19 Feb. 2026
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What’s stripped out at its core—and this is the deepest core of the contemplative traditions—is a non-dual realization of wisdom, an experience of oneness.—
Jay Caspian Kang,
New Yorker,
10 Feb. 2026
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In its brief, Microsoft also warned of significant costs for government suppliers to remove Anthropic software and that the uniqueness of Anthropic’s products may leave some with no alternatives.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
11 Mar. 2026
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Personality is now a big part of what compels buyers to choose a home; agents increasingly hear buyers asking for character and uniqueness over recent design styles.—
Mary Grace Granados
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Mar. 2026
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From a scientific perspective, studying consciousness is a bit like trying to describe the singularity inside a black hole from the window of a spacecraft in its gravitational orbit.—
Conor Feehly,
Big Think,
10 Mar. 2026
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Those outside of it appreciate the singularity of his collections—minimal, revealing, sharp—but have not yet become disciples.—
José Criales-Unzueta,
Vanity Fair,
7 Mar. 2026
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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
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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
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Optimal distinctiveness essentially says that people want to belong to a group and to still be unique in some way at the same time.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
18 Mar. 2026
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This distinctiveness enables theatergoers to engage more fully with a narrative that is centered on living and indulging in the human experience rather than simply acting as passive observers.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The unexpectedly weird shows, though, their individual peculiarities can be fascinating.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
11 Mar. 2026
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The peculiarity of Ouédraogo’s seemingly straightforward and classical practice is to evoke distances, conjuring wide spaces between the images—which is to say, between the characters depicted in them—and to bring those spaces to life.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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The diminishing results amplified his idiosyncrasies.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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Conrad is full of wordy comic dialogue that often sings in its idiosyncrasy but also elicits little more than a chuckle.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
9 Mar. 2026
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In Search of Lost Time can explore selfhood, then, and find that the self is a sprawling, mutable thing.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 Feb. 2026
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Reclaiming conversations on selfhood, bodies and power, with Birthright, a video piece written and directed by Jade O'Belle.—
PhotoVogue,
Vogue,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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