as in solitary
a person who lives away from others St. Jerome is said to have spent two years as a hermit in the desert, searching for inner peace

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Recent Examples of hermit The hermit nation transported its special forces fighters on seven Russian ships earlier in October, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a press release on Friday. Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024 Despite being a commited hermit, Cheng likes to share his creative output online. Denni Hu, WWD, 9 Oct. 2024 The document also tells the life of high-ranking Bulgarian cleric and hermit St. Theodosius of Tarnovo, who lived during that time. Francesca Aton, ARTnews.com, 26 Sep. 2024 Much later, in the ninth century, a hermit named Pelayo is said to have told Teodomiro about a strange shower of bright stars. Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for hermit 
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  • Sweat was then confined to 23-hour-a-day solitary at Five Points Correctional Center, though he was subsequently transferred to Attica Correctional after trying to bribe Five Points officials.
    Kenny Herzog, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Brandon reportedly died by suicide locked in solitary in that shower cage.
    Tamara Carter, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2024
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  • Resolved to continue on her trip for the sake of her son, Sara finds herself in a perilous situation, and is forced to lean on the elusive Issac Reed (Taylor Kitsch), a gruff recluse who lives on the outskirts of Ft. Bridger.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The show’s tedious opening hours depict him as a recluse who has hired a collection of incompetent men to find the games’ slap-happy recruiter (Gong Yoo).
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2024
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  • Still, research indicates that changes in at least one viral isolate taken from a dairy worker in Texas had acquired mutational changes that allowed for airborne transmission between mammals, and was 100% lethal in laboratory ferrets.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
  • While the overall prevalence of ceftriaxone-resistance isolates was 8.1 percent among the 2,804 isolates, five of those 13 provinces had prevalence rates above 10 percent.
    Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2024

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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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