solitary

Many wild bees, including bumblebees and solitary bees, provide pollen directly to their offspring.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

His obsessive court rituals — including meticulously aligning his water bottles and executing his precise pre-point routines — were not merely superstitions, but coping mechanisms in a high-stress, solitary sport.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In solitary confinement, prisoners cannot mix and meals are delivered via a small opening in the cell door.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

But crucially, the text does not specify what will become of Ocalan, 77, who has spent the past 27 years being held in solitary confinement on Imrali prison island near Istanbul.

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

Wilkins found an X-ray diffraction machine in the chemistry department and housed it—“in solitary splendor”—in a lead-lined room under the embankment wing, just below the level of the neighboring river Thames.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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

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

He never pitied or condescended to his solitaries; instead, he loved and understood them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016

It’s the solitaries who interest her, the lurkers at the fringes.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2011

There had long been brotherhoods, hermits, and solitaries in the East, where they existed before the Christian age.

From The History of London by Sir Walter Besant