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Recent Examples of hermit
Many of us became hermits when COVID-19 ravaged our sense of normalcy, and some still haven’t quite gotten back into the swing of in-person dating.
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Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Dexter is now a bit of a hermit living in the wilderness, when his past begins to catch up with him.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The technique was initially practiced alone, but in 1260 a hermit in Perugia launched a movement, and organized processions of mass self-flagellation broke out across Italy.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Even Neil Young, known as something of a hermit, stopped in.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
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Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Dexter is now a bit of a hermit living in the wilderness, when his past begins to catch up with him.
—James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
The technique was initially practiced alone, but in 1260 a hermit in Perugia launched a movement, and organized processions of mass self-flagellation broke out across Italy.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Even Neil Young, known as something of a hermit, stopped in.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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While most spiders are harmless, species such as the black widow and brown recluse can pose health risks due to their bites.—
Brayden Garcia,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
17 Oct. 2025
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This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Nearly four of those years were spent in solitary at ICE’s Northwest Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, where Daniel died on March 7, 2024, the report says.—
Julia Marnin,
Miami Herald,
18 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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The gun-owning Susan Lorincz isolates and relentlessly harasses and targets Ajike Owens’ family, calling police countless times about such infractions as kids playing on the lawn and them just being kids.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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Once their numbers were sufficient, each isolate was exposed to 10 different treatments – compounds, foods, conditions like changes in oxygen.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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