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Recent Examples of Synonyms for friendless
Adjective
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Solitary, eccentric, shrouded in a mystical melancholy, Joakim fights for his farm and leads a withdrawn life, with only his pets and a neighbor for company; a Slovak immigrant who also lives ostracized, as an outsider.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025 -
Hong’s withdrawn gaze is interrupted by sudden movements, like pans across space and crash zooms into ongoing conversations.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Firefighters believe that the fire was caused by a lithium-ion battery for yard equipment that was left unattended.—
Caelyn Pender,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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But the Trump administration recently dismissed about half of the C.D.C. employees at the agency’s 20 port health stations, leaving some stations entirely unattended.—
Emily Anthes,
New York Times,
26 Feb. 2025
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The area still had a slightly forlorn air, with stores boarded up and a few tent villages.—
Tony Perrottet,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Jan. 2025
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In the clip, Junior can be seen lying in his bed, motionless, looking off into the distance with a seemingly forlorn look on his face.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
22 Jan. 2025
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This is an isolated incident and not a threat to the public at this time, according to officials.—
Megan Forrester,
ABC News,
27 Feb. 2025
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Organizations must restructure talent development and organizational frameworks to optimize for knowledge integration rather than isolated expertise.—
William Purvis,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Within this secluded world, life has evolved in bizarre and fascinating ways.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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The Beach Club—accessible via the hotel's Jeeps—offers a secluded stretch of sand with a tropical island feel.—
Elizabeth Rhodes,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Mar. 2025
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That process, undertaken in cloistered seclusion, provides not only the movie’s action but also its warily aggressive tone.—
Graham Hillard,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
29 Nov. 2024
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This is not the first time that a group of Silicon Valley elites have attempted to build a cloistered community, away from but still adjacent to the center of the tech industry.—
Madeline Fitzgerald,
Quartz,
23 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Another remembers her lonely childhood with a single mother and resolved it with a partner from a large family and three children.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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This distinction is important: your parent might live alone without feeling isolated, or conversely, feel lonely despite being surrounded by people.—
Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The multi-month grind of long, solitary hours and deadlines is also incompatible with the deferred pay model that many crew members working on 20-30-day indie shoots accept.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
4 Mar. 2025
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The path to ethical AI is not a solitary journey for individual companies but a shared effort involving stakeholders from all walks of life.—
Madhava Rao Kunchala,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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“Friendless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/friendless. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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