as in solitude
the state of being alone or kept apart from others
it was an overwhelming sense of aloneness that eventually drove the island castaway mad
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Noun
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But there’s also noble resilience in its depiction of solitude, a strange kind of comfort in its rapturous melancholy and companionship in the voices of the dead.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025 -
On The Water Apart from that sense of solitude, a major part of the appeal is clearly the location: on a peninsula with one side fronting the calm, pure turquoise water of the Caicos Bank; the other side, the rolling waves of the Atlantic in varying shades of blue.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Industry surveys have shown that data privacy and the high cost of implementing large language models are among the reasons why enterprises have resisted AI adoption.—
Ganesh Rao,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2025
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Who better to ensure AI tools respect and protect women's privacy and dignity than those who have long fought for these basic rights?—
Erin Grau,
TIME,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The isolation tank, communicating with other species, all of these things had very early roots in (the question) how can this be exploited?—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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Leaders often report feelings of isolation, which further compounds stress and reduces their ability to find balance.—
Sonia Singh,
Rolling Stone,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Aloneness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aloneness. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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