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Recent Examples of singleness
Selena Gomez is celebrating singleness, and Carrie Bradshaw would not approve.
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2023
Her life honed to a singleness of purpose while my father stumbles about, narrating the current state of his illnesses.
—Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Is this supposed bible of singleness still applicable now?
—Lauren O’Neill, Vogue, 17 July 2023
Key turns to the 10 songs on Mitchell’s album Blue, using each song to think through how singleness has shaped her life socially, emotionally, and materially.
—Hannah Rosefield, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
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Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2023
Her life honed to a singleness of purpose while my father stumbles about, narrating the current state of his illnesses.
—Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Is this supposed bible of singleness still applicable now?
—Lauren O’Neill, Vogue, 17 July 2023
Key turns to the 10 songs on Mitchell’s album Blue, using each song to think through how singleness has shaped her life socially, emotionally, and materially.
—Hannah Rosefield, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for singleness
Noun
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Several times, as another musician plays, Monk stands center stage and spins in place, in febrile oneness with the music.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The illusion of separation, the truth of universal oneness.—
Oshan Jarow,
Vox,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The compound’s British West Indies style gives it singularity within Windsor, an architecturally cohesive community master-planned by Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
13 July 2025
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Thus, that singularity at the heart of black holes suggests to physicists that the theory of general relativity is incomplete, and what could be missing is quantum gravity.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
1 July 2025
Noun
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Experiencing these peculiarities without being able to name them can make navigating life difficult.—
Elizabeth Ayoola,
Essence,
2 July 2025
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Her field notes are animated by sympathetic amusement, a tactful astonishment at the sheer evolutionary peculiarity of this creature.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
13 June 2025
Noun
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Whereas Zev might use Jess’s attachment to her phone as an opportunity to tear her down, Felix gives her enough grace to see her idiosyncrasies as no better or worse than anyone else’s.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
10 July 2025
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Episodes are short, just over five minutes at most, and focus on the idiosyncrasies — whether that’s a person, place or phenomenon — that make Naperville, Naperville.—
Tess Kenny,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2025
Noun
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This week Brooke and Grant chose to explore silence and its impact on families, on selfhood, and of course on our writing.—
Memoir Nation
June 9,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2025
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In contrast, Miller is interested in the body that wears the clothing, and how clothing is a way to define selfhood and the body.—
Laird Borrelli-Persson,
Vogue,
4 May 2025
Noun
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The survey noted that Airbnb guests increasingly value quirky, authentic, or unusual features that give rentals a sense of individuality.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 July 2025
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These children are coming of age in a world that values individuality, hyper-personalization, and rapid innovation.—
Glenn Llopis,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
Noun
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The identity of the suspect has also not been released.—
Kiki Intarasuwan
July 14,
CBS News,
14 July 2025
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Youssef is a bridge of sorts between multiple modes of Muslim identity.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
Noun
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The cowboy, that paragon of rugged individualism, stands for stoicism and a wordless sweaty brotherhood.—
Philip Martin,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Samson is certainly at the vanguard of one of the various ideological projects in the Trump coalition, a rejection of liberalism and individualism that’s been associated with conservative Catholic thinkers.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
22 June 2025
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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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