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Recent Examples of solitarily
Kids scattered all over the world were listening deeply and solitarily in headphones—and swapping songs and opinions about those songs online.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solitarily
Adverb
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The revolutionaries’ own internal divisions left them to face the Austrian invasion singly.—
Britannica Editors,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
12 Mar. 2026
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My own experience with night pests was at a time of utter exhaustion— too much work undertaken, interlocking circumstances that made the work twice as arduous, illness within and around— the old story of troubles never coming singly.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The budget includes $350 billion in defense spending to be approved separately by Republicans, with additional unspecified funding for military operations in Iran still under discussion.—
Kevin Freking,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Apr. 2026
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Travel the Smiths have taken, together and separately, has come under scrutiny.—
The Denver Post Editorial Board,
Denver Post,
16 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Munn, 45, spoke exclusively with PEOPLE about what her day-to-day is like with her husband John Mulaney and their two kids at the Your Friends & Neighbors press junket on Tuesday, March 24.—
Lexi Lane,
PEOPLE,
13 Apr. 2026
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The play strips away some of the cinematic trappings of the movie and focuses exclusively on the lives of the female characters.—
Libby Smith,
CBS News,
13 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Authorities have not said whether the victims were targeted individually or had any connection to the suspects.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
12 Apr. 2026
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The firm is known for its accessible, bilingual legal representation, which focuses on connecting individually with clients rather than prioritizing case volume.—
Gretchen Wittenmyer-Stone,
Miami Herald,
11 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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And, much like Earth’s atmosphere, Titan’s air is mostly nitrogen, albeit with small and distinctly unearthly amounts of methane and hydrogen.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
10 Apr. 2026
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The cast members went their distinctly separate ways.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Among his stops was a key glove save on MacKenzie Weegar when the former Flames defenseman broke in from the blue line all alone.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Most fascinating was a trip down memory lane that found the singer alone on stage at a desk, with a laptop — a boy and his MacBook — spontaneously looking up old videos to sing along with, in the only part of the hour-and-a-half set that brought in any catalog material.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
12 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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As part of this singularly unconventional deal, CBS pays not a red cent for the privilege of covering the tourney, and while that leaves as much as $125 million in rights fees on the table, Augusta more than makes up for that by way of the gate, merch and concessions.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The following weeks’ episodes will be released singularly on Wednesdays.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
7 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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One, Emergency in favor of twice, existed solely as an unfathomable phrase mentioned in a letter from Duchamp to his sister.—
Howard Halle,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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Women’s health is often thought of as consisting solely of reproductive health issues.—
Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Solitarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solitarily. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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