lonely
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What if this guy was a lonely plastic surgeon, I thought.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Dillon said the story offered fresh insights that challenge the view of Turing as an isolated, lonely genius.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Dogs in art, Mr. Laqueur suggests, “bring their world into ours, which is perhaps how they make us feel less lonely as a species.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
“He’s been so lonely since his career died.”
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
“Horses. One day, dozens. Neither of us will be lonely again.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Dr. Christine Crawford, a psychiatrist and chief medical officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, worries that patients’ overreliance on or stand-alone use of these tools could make patients lonelier and raise mental-health risks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
In her essay collection “The Age of Loneliness,” Laura Marris examines quiet conditions that our society doesn’t know have been lost and how we’re lonelier for those untold vanishings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
That stance is getting lonelier as hard- drive stocks continue their ascent.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
“People are lonelier now. Our generation is lonelier.”
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2024
“I’d be lonelier there. I’ve never belonged at that school.”
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
One problem with all these efforts to mitigate old-age loneliness, Schiller notes, is that the loneliest generation is actually Gen Z. And the loneliness surveys themselves, she suggests, may be suspect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
“I mean, sometimes the loneliest place for someone like that is in a crowded room,” Rausch observes in recognizing the sensitivity of a fellow introvert.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2026
Gen Z, it turns out, is the loneliest generation of them all, according to the 2025 Cigna Group report “Loneliness in America.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Another, “Altars,” is a tame and ultimately bland song by Ms. Aitchison’s high standards, with a chorus—“One is not the loneliest number”—that draws on a pop cliché without interrogating or transforming it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
Suddenly it feels like just about the loneliest place in the whole wide world.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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