loner
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Since then, despite Jeselnik’s self-proclaimed loner status, Fitzgerald and Jeselnik have struck up a friendship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
“There are a couple of groups that I’ve kind of gone to, I’m a bit of a loner, it didn’t work well for me,” Mathews said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
“The Mandalorian and Grogu” takes the series’ thematic underpinnings — what parenting looks like between a masked human loner and an otherworldly toddler — and deepens them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Los Angeles and Tucson, Ariz. Despite many close friendships, especially with women, he was at heart a loner, conditioned, possibly, by clinical depression, for which he sought electroshock therapy even though it addled his brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Like most hamsters, I’m pretty much of a loner, so I really hadn’t thought about it before.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
Following the attacks, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain faced a new threat from "extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms".
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025
Glowering loners staring at the two women under 40 like cats watching birds out a window.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2024
They’re renowned loners, with males occupying territories of up to 500 square miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
In Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen Leaves,” my favorite film of 2023, a pair of loners find nourishing points of connection in a cruel and grim world: the movies, karaoke and a dog named Chaplin.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Then there are the loners, and I have talked with them also.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
