solitary
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"She's spent over 30 years in prison, most of that in solitary confinement."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
"He really speaks very little, he's very withdrawn, very shy, off in his corner... he's a very solitary person," Saint-Eloi told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
The process of songwriting, rather than being a solitary slog, is a collective joy, rapturously captured in the number “Write a Way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
He typically records alone—This Is Lorelei is his solo project—and a feeling of solitary contemplation permeates his music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
“It’s like we’re a single, solitary identity and nothing more. The world is hella complicated! There’s more to it than that.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
It is his conversations with fellow city solitaries that unveil smaller revelations, and Saramago casts the transformation of his protagonist in existential terms as Senhor José’s search becomes a project in itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Like everything these days, hermits exist on a wide spectrum and prefer a variety of identifiers: lovers of solitude, solitaries, contemplatives.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2020
As Chaplin realized, it swarmed with solitaries, all of them dreaming, like dragons, of a private hoard.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2018
But I found out about a newsletter run by a couple in the Carolinas aimed at solitaries and, after posting an ad there, began writing to a few.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2017
These solitaries spent each a long life in a cave, macerating the body with fasting, and occupying the mind with the reveries of a morbid imagination.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by W. D. (William Dool) Killen
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