loner
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Carol Baxter, 64, gave D'Wit a job designing a website for her lucrative shower mat business and soon took the loner under her wing.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
One part of his letter struck me as both moving and marvelous: “Since I’m a loner, I don’t have any really close friends, either.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 20, 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
It tells the story of a lonely woman who uses a magical spray to improve her life and finds romance with a fellow loner.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 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
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
Ecologists had long assumed snakes are antisocial loners that hang out together only for core functions such as mating and hibernation.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 15, 2023
The common view that domestic cats are aloof loners couldn't be further from the truth.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
People like Nicole Castro didn’t know loners like me.
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
