loneliness
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Helplessness melts into righteous rage as you type some scathing retort, as loneliness gives way to the metallic taste of parasocial satisfaction as the likes and reposts flood in.
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
While admitting you needed friends used to carry a heavy social stigma, people have become more honest about their loneliness, Krems said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Her 2026 LP “Middle of Nowhere,” by contrast, is back in a classic mode of artful, often hilarious bangers about the loneliness of small town life and dating at the edge of 40.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
But now a growing "loneliness industry" has emerged to try to fill these gaps in people's lives.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
It was a Japanese loneliness, something she’d learned about from studying poems in school—just a sense that everything at that exact moment was kind of perfect, and yet also really sad.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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