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single woman

NOUN
bachelor girl
Synonyms


NOUN
spinster
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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

Perhaps most telling, Becket points out that “the States have not identified a single woman who would lose coverage” if the Supreme Court again sides with the sisters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

"I no longer feel safe calling west London home as a single woman," she said.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2025

Miss Effie Jewett McCaw, a single woman who taught school and later became a principal, served as our first tennis coach.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry




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