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After the talks failed, the reclusive country has continued expanding its nuclear weapons programme, despite UN sanctions.

For decades the reclusive artist worked away in a housing association flat, stacking and rolling up canvases and drawings.

"The Thomases were highly regarded in the community. Pat Molloy tried to suggest they were reclusive and constantly bickering, but that isn't borne out by the facts."

O’Shea has room to encompass this other Beckett, but Byrne’s reclusive version of the character seems like he might be more at home in a monastery or academic library.

In the White House during Trump’s first term, she was a reclusive figure compared to other first ladies, focusing on a narrow set of interests.