solitary
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The process of songwriting, rather than being a solitary slog, is a collective joy, rapturously captured in the number “Write a Way.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
It’s a sense of the ultramarathoner world being a kind of mosaic, the runners united by their passion, but never anything but solitary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Scullion said his client had lived in "isolation" since his guilty plea and his future appeared "bleak and solitary".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
Nogueira, who has 13,000 followers on TikTok, explained that Gen Z readers found an echo in "the figure of the solitary dreamer, which is how many young people feel today."
From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026
Psyche, the all-beautiful, sat sad and solitary, only admired, never loved.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
It is his conversations with fellow city solitaries that unveil smaller revelations, and Saramago casts the transformation of his protagonist in existential terms as Senhor José’s search becomes a project in itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
As Chaplin realized, it swarmed with solitaries, all of them dreaming, like dragons, of a private hoard.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 14, 2018
But I found out about a newsletter run by a couple in the Carolinas aimed at solitaries and, after posting an ad there, began writing to a few.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2017
He never pitied or condescended to his solitaries; instead, he loved and understood them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016
He told me that he supposed at the time that all the folks looked at him for that they were not used to see solitaries, but I do not think it was that.
From The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary by Robert Hugh Benson
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