solitarily

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Recent Examples of solitarily Kids scattered all over the world were listening deeply and solitarily in headphones—and swapping songs and opinions about those songs online. Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for solitarily
Adverb
  • Mimosa and Bloody Mary variations, in flights or singly, can be purchased separately.
    Greg Mellen, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Not singly, not a lone fish here and there, but in packs.
    Ben East, Outdoor Life, 28 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • The knit crewneck sweater and midi skirt set will elevate any fall travel wardrobe, separately and together.
    Melony Forcier, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The two teenagers were separately charged for an August 2024 attack on Transport for London, a government agency that oversees trains, buses, taxis, and the London Underground.
    Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.
    Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • For generations, organizational health has been measured almost exclusively by output and production, with hiring, development and promotions tied primarily to what leaders do.
    Heather V. MacArthur, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • To date, Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico and Virginia have individually taken action to expand COVID vaccine access by allowing pharmacists to administer the vaccine under certain circumstances.
    Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The clinic considers hair transplantation not only as a technical procedure but as an aesthetic art and evaluates each patient individually.
    Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • These schools know that as machines handle routine cognitive tasks, distinctly human capabilities become the premium.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Despite a solid cast and some decent jokes, the series rarely rises above the level of pleasantly unobjectionable, much less distinctly memorable.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • But when companies dig in, persistence alone isn’t enough.
    Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The available evidence suggests that Kirk’s alleged killer, a twenty-two-year-old man from Utah without any clear political affiliation, acted alone.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Or maybe it's just singularly taken as a song that people really connect with regardless.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • But this was South Korea in the 1960s – a deeply patriarchal society that was singularly focused on rebuilding from the devastation of the Korean war and Japan’s brutal occupation before that.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • It is concerned solely with the here-and-now, preserving the peace for just one more day, and waiting for the CCP to collapse like the imperial dynasties that ruled China before.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 16 Sep. 2025
  • While detailing the first in-person meeting between her and Rodríguez, Pascal spoke about the specific rhetoric that trans actors sometimes come up against, which is that trans actors should connect with trans subjects based solely on identity, rather than the many other aspects of their humanity.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 15 Sep. 2025

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“Solitarily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/solitarily. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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