solitary
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement following allegations of his lavish federal prison lifestyle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Having been arrested in Hungary in 2019, he was extradited to Portugal and has at various points been in solitary confinement, under house arrest and in witness protection.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 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
Nogueira, who has 13,000 followers on TikTok, explained that Gen Z readers found an echo in "the figure of the solitary dreamer, which is how many young people feel today."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
I said the words, then braced myself for a wave of humiliation—for that image to invade my thoughts, of me, one of many wives standing behind a solitary, faceless man—but it didn’t come.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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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
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
It’s the solitaries who interest her, the lurkers at the fringes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 12, 2011
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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