singleness

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Recent Examples of singleness 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 Also, don't assume singleness as necessarily a problem that needs to be solved. Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for singleness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for singleness
Noun
  • Explore oneness with community, but don’t force anything.
    Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Explore oneness with community but don’t force anything.
    Tribune Content Agency, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Vintage and thrifted decor can bring intrigue and uniqueness to a bathroom’s design.
    Melissa Epifano, The Spruce, 4 Jan. 2026
  • While bright, white, and neutral living rooms have become the norm recently, darker and moodier living rooms are absolutely stunning and add an element of uniqueness to your home.
    Zoe Gowen, Southern Living, 29 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Crucially, none of these new singularity candidates has been proved.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Helping disabled people regain autonomy, building a device for consumers to play video games, or mitigating the singularity, a theoretical future in which artificial intelligence has surpassed human intelligence?
    Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • On the one hand, the gift of consciousness brought the glory of independence; on the other, the punishment of separateness.
    Vivian Gornick, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As to the non-final action, one problem for the A’s is that the marks fail to show enough distinctiveness.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Judean culture had been transformed by Greek influence for centuries, but Antiochus attempted to quash Judean religious distinctiveness altogether.
    Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Caillaux, by the way, is spelled C-A-I-L-L-A-U-X for those unfamiliar with the peculiarities of French pronunciation.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 31 Dec. 2025
  • One senses that there may have been more to the woman’s silence than awestruck agreement, but Bergler cheerfully adds her to his portfolio of case studies, in which patients’ sartorial peculiarities are unfailingly traced to episodes from their pasts.
    Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The guide recommended giving her some fun idiosyncrasies.
    Amogh Dimri, The Atlantic, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In effect, Jarmusch is standing Tolstoy on his head and suggesting that unhappy families share common forms of misery, whereas the happy ones are happy precisely because of their differences—because of the idiosyncrasies that place them outside convention.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • In their world, which is also ours, selfhood has degraded into taste, preferences, demography, and outlays of attention and money.
    Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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