lonesome
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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
Only this time, he was all by his lonesome.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026
One such scene in the premiere smash cuts between a lonesome Chris sulking by himself at home.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2025
“Christ! ” said Perry, glaring at the landscape, flat and limitless under the sky’s cold, lingering green—empty and lonesome except for the far-between Bickerings of farmhouse lights.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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