recluse
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Paul is a recluse with a reputation as a genius with color.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
The recluse part is I don’t like being in the public eye.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Xu, an online megaposter but real-life recluse, has rarely spoken with reporters and hasn’t been photographed in public for nearly a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
The police warned her of a threat against her - known as a TM1 notice - and she described being in "turmoil" and becoming a recluse.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2025
Prince Humperdinck’s recluse lived behind the ornate green handle on the bottom door.
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
The quartet’s exhilarating brand of emo, primarily from their stellar album “I Became Birds,” blends the fiery rage of hardcore with the oddball existentialism of indie recluses Neutral Milk Hotel.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
Neighbors who put their pickups into park to chat when they drove past each other and recluses who shunned society.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2020
He said the brothers were both recluses and he could not understand what had happened.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2019
Yet such withdrawal can feed on itself, depriving recluses of the social interaction that is important to mental health, undermining relationships and careers and contributing to economic hardship.
From Economist ● Jun. 14, 2018
Instead of starting junior high school, I lived like the Victorian recluses I read about.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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