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Recent Examples of hermit
Our local guide, Joseph, noted that the once dapper distinguished Gaudi in advanced years became a disheveled hermit living in the church’s workshop.
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Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Licasale explained that the little buildings dotting the mountains are monasteries established by hermits during the Middle Ages.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
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Gqlshare, Orange County Register, 15 Jan. 2025
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Licasale explained that the little buildings dotting the mountains are monasteries established by hermits during the Middle Ages.
—Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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However, Local Law 42, the law limiting solitary, requires 14 hours per day of out-of-cell time.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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Sweat was then confined to 23-hour-a-day solitary at Five Points Correctional Center, though he was subsequently transferred to Attica Correctional after trying to bribe Five Points officials.—
Kenny Herzog,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2024
Noun
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In his report, Adams found no evidence to suggest that the two-time Oscar winner spent his final years as a recluse in his home in a gated community, guarded by his protective younger second wife.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
2 Apr. 2025
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The recluse of 30 years comes out of hibernation and emerges with a new album that fires up more brain-dead devotion and fawning.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Even the oldest algae isolates can still actively produce oxygen, a measurement of photosynthetic performance found.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Genetic sequencing revealed striking similarities between the virus strains at these farms, with some isolates from the duck farm 100% identical to those found in the chicken farms.—
John Drake,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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