recluse
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But years of awful press had turned him into a recluse.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Goetz himself is still alive, a squirrel-feeding recluse who lives in virtual poverty so as not to have to pay the massive judgment against him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
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
Born in Virginia, D'Angelo was something of a recluse and only periodically surfaced to release music, most of which was received favorably by fans and critics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2025
His failures had made him a recluse, but people remembered the vulnerable boy he had once been.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
So much so that authorities are offering young recluses who meet a certain income threshold a monthly stipend to coax them out of their homes.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
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
Social isolation has certainly increased in Japan, where half a million young people live as “hikikomori” — recluses who don’t leave their homes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 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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