as in oneness
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Recent Examples of singleness
Her life honed to a singleness of purpose while my father stumbles about, narrating the current state of his illnesses.
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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
The report, published Wednesday by a church Commission on Families and Households, urges people to honor singleness and single-person households — and to be open to reimagining a society that allows everyone to thrive, including the unpartnered.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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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
The report, published Wednesday by a church Commission on Families and Households, urges people to honor singleness and single-person households — and to be open to reimagining a society that allows everyone to thrive, including the unpartnered.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 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
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And while the interests of international law look unlikely to be served over the next four days, the trip, by virtue of its singularity, acts as a reminder of the new international constraints under which Israel’s leader now operates.—
Andrew Carey,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2025
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For some equations with singularities — points where the answers turn into infinity — looking at the nearby behavior with complex numbers can sometimes provide insight.—
Kenneth Chang,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Antoine’s peculiarities perhaps cut deepest, even seemingly superficial ones.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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There are echoes of the early days of thermodynamics, which began with humble questions about how machines work and ended up speaking to the arrow of time, the peculiarities of living matter, and the fate of the universe.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
2 Apr. 2025
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In an expansive interview alongside playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, LaBeouf spoke about how his and Coppola's disparate idiosyncrasies often led to frustrations on set of the sprawling sci-fi drama, which had been a decades-long passion project for Coppola but ended up as a high-profile flop.—
Jessica Wang,
EW.com,
8 May 2025
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Those idiosyncrasies are what make the sport so exceptional.—
Jim Root,
The Athletic,
7 Feb. 2025
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The sense of selfhood existing in mirrorlike closeup, is an inherently cinematic one, not a theatrical one, and Deneuve is the greatest exemplar of this French style.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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And that’s exactly what Self of Selves offers: an unguarded layering of thought, process, and selfhood.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
12 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Your heart truly transforms in the spaces that support your individuality.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
6 May 2025
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Each look preserved and expressed individuality, femininity, heritage and intention.—
Sughnen Yongo,
Forbes.com,
6 May 2025
Noun
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On the one side are Autistic self-advocates, many of whom reject the idea that Autism is a disease and instead embrace it as an identity.—
Jason Phillips,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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The issue of identity is not just a fad but becomes a fact of self-determination — in this context, Dahomey’s flaws are instructive for this moment when race and gender exploitation runs rampant and unchecked.—
Armond White,
National Review,
16 May 2025
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Like the United States, Australia is a young nation with a culture of frontier individualism.—
David Newheiser,
The Orlando Sentinel,
11 May 2025
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The valley has long leaned Democratic, but with an unusual political mix: a general dislike of getting too involved in Washington’s business coupled with an at-times contradictory mix of libertarian individualism, Bay Area activism and belief in the ability of science to solve the world’s problems.—
Nicholas Riccardi,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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