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hermit

noun as in person who chose to live alone

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In “Snail,” a traumatized and lonely young Grace risks becoming a hoarding hermit until she bonds with the older Pinky, who is the essence of joie de vivre.

Karen, 60, from Sheffield, said she was left living "just like a hermit" after having to move house and building up sizeable debts following the end of a relationship.

From BBC

"Earlier this week, we’ve had a hermit crab that came back from Malta in a shell," he said.

From BBC

Directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez on a shoestring budget of $60,000, “Blair Witch” purported to be not a fictional story but the actual footage found in camcorders left behind by three young filmmakers who disappeared in the Maryland woods in 1994 while making a documentary about a mythical local hermit who abducted and slaughtered children.

But when the king failed to invite him to the wedding party, the furious hermit cursed his creation with a potent stench.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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