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Recent Examples of recluse
Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2024
Everyone wanted to know about the recluse who had so adeptly captured 20th-century America.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
The film deposits its heroine, Frida (played by Naomi Ackie), a cocktail waitress, into an island retreat belonging to the tech mogul Slater King (a coolly menacing Channing Tatum), who has become a bit of a recluse after a reputation-tarnishing scandal.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024
This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
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Noun
How to identify a brown recluse Purdue's guide says a mature brown recluse spider's leg span is about the size of a half dollar.
—Jenny Porter Tilley, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Sep. 2024
Everyone wanted to know about the recluse who had so adeptly captured 20th-century America.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 July 2024
The film deposits its heroine, Frida (played by Naomi Ackie), a cocktail waitress, into an island retreat belonging to the tech mogul Slater King (a coolly menacing Channing Tatum), who has become a bit of a recluse after a reputation-tarnishing scandal.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2024
This includes brown and black widows and brown recluse.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for recluse
Noun
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Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
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His exhortations are driven by a cynical bluster, a loss of faith in mankind; that seems to be the real reason that he’s abandoned Germany to live as a tropical hermit.Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
Adjective
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Naturally, things soon begin to go bump in the night in the reclusive author's remote home.Megan McCluskey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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The film centers on Howard as reclusive author Elly Conway, whose best-selling espionage novels start to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy organization.Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
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“Recluse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recluse. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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