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Recent Examples of loneliness
Although people without friend groups aren’t automatically more lonely, having access to one can certainly help alleviate loneliness.
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Jenny Singer, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
His songs are about such isolation and such loneliness.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
Some experience financial pressure, health concerns or loneliness.
—Norman B. Gildin, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2026
The story show Springsteen’s retreat from the world not just as a creative choice, but also as a response to a period of burgeoning depression and loneliness.
—Robert Lang, Deadline, 6 Jan. 2026
These questions of addiction, working these kinds of low-level jobs, drug use, alcoholism, loneliness, these are not themes that are far from me.
—Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026
Set against intimate domestic spaces and the Oslo skyline, the movie explores loneliness, abandonment and the emotional inheritance passed through generations.
—Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 5 Jan. 2026
With the help of a tall pour of bourbon, a five-piece band, and modern outlook, the title character chronicles the chaos and loneliness of her life.
—Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 4 Jan. 2026
She is perched on the livewire between the raw and the cooked, ready to delve into love, selfhood, and loneliness with timing and turns that keep you on board.
—Literary Hub, 2 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loneliness
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As a pattern of intimidation, isolation, humiliation and controlling behavior, coercive control can be as damaging as physical abuse.—
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As the film progresses, Grace slowly falls deeper into depression and isolation.—
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The atmosphere is both grand and intimate, inviting celebration and solitude.—
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Long stretches of solitude neither bothered him nor appeared to impair his sociability.—
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People often refer to aloneness and writer’s block as the two great challenges of being a novelist.—
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This is a telling fantasy—to feel more content in one’s dreamed aloneness than in real society.—
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On that date, a bus driver called police to complain that two Black girls were sitting near two White girls in violation of segregation laws, according to the Associated Press.—
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The challengers compared Hawaii’s law, which was enacted a year later, to states that resisted the Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision outlawing racial segregation in schools.—
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Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.—
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Since becoming president of Taiwan, last May, Lai has asserted Taiwan’s separateness from the mainland and muted his predecessor’s efforts to reassure Beijing.—
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The shift is abrupt and deliberate, marking the threshold between Seminyak’s glorious disorder and the calm seclusion of the Oberoi Beach Resort, Bali.—
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In pre-internet 1987, Conor and his dog Sandy live a life of seclusion, lost in the slow-rendering graphics of early Macs and televisions aglow with late night horror movie marathons.—
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Speaking to gadgets is often faster than typing, but Amazon and Nirva also see their devices as another means to gather data that can provide insights about a user’s life, though doing so will surely raise privacy concerns.—
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Add curtains for privacy and extra hanging space throughout your abode worry-free.—
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“Loneliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loneliness. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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