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
  • Founded in the 19th century in Iran, the faith centers around principles of humanity and oneness.
    Adam Duxter, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Eau De Parfum The First A'ddct's The First is a fragrance that captures your uniqueness and individuality.
    Amanda Le, InStyle, 21 June 2026
  • Collaboration thrives when your uniqueness stays visible.
    Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Expanding on the character designs, Hirota underlined the quirky looks and the singularity of his artistic direction, directly inspired by child’s play and faulty craft.
    Kevin Giraud, Variety, 22 June 2026
  • According to general relativity, in a rotating black hole, the singularity—the theoretical point of infinite density at the center—is really a one-dimensional ring, with closed timelike curves arcing around it.
    Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 12 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
  • Cheuk urged directors to lean into their creative distinctiveness.
    Jenny S. Li, Variety, 15 June 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • For thousands of years, scholars have investigated the peculiarities of irrational numbers.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
  • Rose of Nevada’s power lies in its peculiarities.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Anta Claus is spilling over with character flaws, idiosyncrasies, jealousy and frustration.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 June 2026
  • There’s an intrinsic pleasure in seeing filmmakers grow both older and weirder, yielding to their personal idiosyncrasies and obsessions, taking wild chances in pursuit of their passions.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Being assembled and claimed by kindergartner Bonnie transforms an initially reluctant Forky from trash to toy in Toy Story 4, but becoming discarded and ownerless doesn’t rob lost toys of their selfhood.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • Somewhere Good is a suspension of those ideas, neither insular nor showy, an exertion of quiet selfhood.
    Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 5 June 2026

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.

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