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single woman

NOUN
bachelor girl
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NOUN
spinster
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If I—a single woman who lives alone and works from home—don’t have the luxury of me time, I cannot fathom what families, gig workers, and recent college graduates must endure.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

Finally, well into middle age, I stopped caring about getting married and focused on how good my life as a single woman was.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

I am a 73-year-old single woman who lives 10 miles from the ocean in the western Gulf area of Florida.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 28, 2026

Disney-owned ABC had widely promoted the 22nd season of the show, in which 22 men compete for a relationship with a single woman, including trailing it during Sunday night's Oscars gala.

From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026

The main character, Mary Richards, was a young, single woman who was interested not in starting a family—as practically every previous television heroine had been—but in advancing her career.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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