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lonesome

[lohn-suhm] / ˈloʊn səm /


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And if you plan to mark the occasion all by your lonesome, that’s alright, too.

From Salon Jun. 4, 2026

And sometimes life is lonesome on the road.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

This presents Fed Chair Kevin Warsh with a rather inconvenient truth—if he is still advocating for rate cuts, as in his Senate testimony last month, he may be a lonesome dove.

From Barron's May 23, 2026

It took Ireland eight minutes to score at Murrayfield, the nerveless Sam Prendergast enjoying time and space and a penalty advantage to throw a long left-to-right pass to Calvin Nash, all on his lonesome.

From BBC Feb. 10, 2025

It was a wild, lonesome place, down in a deep canyon that was bent in the shape of a horseshoe.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson




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