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[hur-mit] / ˈhɜr mɪt /


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Wildlife enthusiast Fred, who had just turned six at the time of filming in the summer and autumn of 2024, enjoyed spotting scorpions, snakes, monkeys, monitor lizards, eagles, hermit crabs, geckos and flying lemurs.

From BBC Feb. 14, 2026

The Order of the Hermits of St Augustine was established in 1256 when the papacy объединed several hermit groups from central Italy into a single mendicant order.

From Science Daily Feb. 2, 2026

And there's a deep-sea hermit crab, living not inside a shell, but a sea star the team can't immediately identify.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

“I’m a little bit of a hermit, and just wanted some more trees and a little more space,” Nancherla says.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2025

I could go live in the woods like a hermit.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie

There are no desert hermits in our tradition, only moms and dads tending home fires.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 11, 2025

Augustinian hermits in della Francesca’s native Borgo San Sepolcro commissioned the altarpiece in 1454, and it hung in its original church for less than 100 years.

From Seattle Times Mar. 19, 2024

Moreover, each of these schools of thought and even the more minor traditions formed a common frame of reference within which Chinese rulers, philosophers, scribes, and even hermits expressed their own views.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

Big Sur has inspired poets and artists, lured homesteaders, hermits and hippies, and drawn millions of tourists each year.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 2023

In such a place lived the hermits of the early church piercing to infinity with unlittered minds.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck




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