as in oneness
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Recent Examples of singleness
Her life honed to a singleness of purpose while my father stumbles about, narrating the current state of his illnesses.
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Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Is this supposed bible of singleness still applicable now?
—Lauren O’Neill, Vogue, 17 July 2023
Key turns to the 10 songs on Mitchell’s album Blue, using each song to think through how singleness has shaped her life socially, emotionally, and materially.
—Hannah Rosefield, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
The report, published Wednesday by a church Commission on Families and Households, urges people to honor singleness and single-person households — and to be open to reimagining a society that allows everyone to thrive, including the unpartnered.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
Is this supposed bible of singleness still applicable now?
—Lauren O’Neill, Vogue, 17 July 2023
Key turns to the 10 songs on Mitchell’s album Blue, using each song to think through how singleness has shaped her life socially, emotionally, and materially.
—Hannah Rosefield, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
The report, published Wednesday by a church Commission on Families and Households, urges people to honor singleness and single-person households — and to be open to reimagining a society that allows everyone to thrive, including the unpartnered.
—Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for singleness
Noun
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Several times, as another musician plays, Monk stands center stage and spins in place, in febrile oneness with the music.—
Michael Schulman,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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The illusion of separation, the truth of universal oneness.—
Oshan Jarow,
Vox,
8 Jan. 2025
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At that moment, a person who loves Broadway theater and adores its creativity and singularity surely was justified throwing up their hands in capitulation to the phenomenally successful streaming service whose stock has been rising even as the rest of Wall Street is in the tank.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
23 Apr. 2025
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In the last few years, physicists have been revisiting the chaos around singularities with new mathematical tools.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Wired News,
20 Apr. 2025
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This Texas peculiarity is especially confounding to Democratic legislators in Sacramento and Springfield, who would never dream of allowing Republicans to do likewise in California and Illinois, states where Democrats have legislative supermajorities like the GOP does in Texas.—
Patrick Gleason,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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But that’s a decline with some peculiarities.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
6 Jan. 2025
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Japan has some idiosyncrasies about its business culture that make faxing essential, such as the use of a personal seal or hanko, which is used in place of a personal signature, as well as the high value assigned to documents.—
Tamsin Gable,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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In other fields, support specialists identify high-maintenance clients (for example, mechanics understand machine idiosyncrasies, and legal analysts learn which regulations require extra scrutiny).—
Rajesh Rajagopalan,
Forbes.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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And that’s exactly what Self of Selves offers: an unguarded layering of thought, process, and selfhood.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
12 Apr. 2025
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These articles and practices align with Self’s idea of collage as representative of selfhood and that humans exist in multiple dimensions.—
Essence,
Essence,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Seen through the narrator’s eyes, the fast-food restaurant’s employees lose their generic anonymity and gain a sense of individuality.—
Rhian Sasseen,
The Atlantic,
17 Apr. 2025
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But for one day of the Major League Baseball season, all of that individuality is set aside.—
Arick Wierson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Apr. 2025
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Harvard must immediately reform its student discipline policies and procedures so as to swiftly and transparently enforce its existing disciplinary policies with consistency and impartiality, and without double standards based on identity or ideology.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Today, the two-story adobe residence is a local, state and national historic landmark offering year-round exhibitions, educational programs and cultural events that explore the many identities of the West.—
Jasmine Desiree,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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The club will allow beards beginning this season for the first time in nearly 50 years, changing one of the most notable team rules in American sports in what Chisholm said was a sign of baseball’s progress in accepting individualism.—
Chris Kirschner,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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With intentionally provocative lyrics, the song takes profane aim at the hypocrisy of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives, who refuse to respect trans people’s personhood all while applying gender individualism to an ostensibly formless, all-encompassing God.—
Abby Monteil,
Them,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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