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Recent Examples of recluse
Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
Resolved to continue on her trip for the sake of her son, Sara finds herself in a perilous situation, and is forced to lean on the elusive Issac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), a gruff recluse who lives on the outskirts of Ft. Bridger.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
The show’s tedious opening hours depict him as a recluse who has hired a collection of incompetent men to find the games’ slap-happy recruiter (Gong Yoo).
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The late polymath and famously eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes was a businessman, pilot, aerospace engineer, investor, and philanthropist turned recluse who was once the richest man in the world.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
Resolved to continue on her trip for the sake of her son, Sara finds herself in a perilous situation, and is forced to lean on the elusive Issac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), a gruff recluse who lives on the outskirts of Ft. Bridger.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
The show’s tedious opening hours depict him as a recluse who has hired a collection of incompetent men to find the games’ slap-happy recruiter (Gong Yoo).
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recluse
Noun
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George lives something of a hermit’s life in Hudson.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
20 Feb. 2025
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The monastery is also home to pink-robe-wearing novice monks, who train at Taung Kalat, and yetis, or hermit monks, who glide in their peaked caps in quiet contemplation across the precariously balanced complex.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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It is named after longtime local environmental and snowpack researcher billy barr, a reclusive mountain man who prefers spelling his name using lowercase letters.—
Morgan Tilton,
The Denver Post,
4 Feb. 2025
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The notoriously reclusive singer took to X to signal (albeit lukewarm) support on Wednesday.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
6 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.—
Bay Area News Group,
The Mercury News,
2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.—
Erika Page,
The Christian Science Monitor,
2 Feb. 2024
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“Recluse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recluse. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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