singleness

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Recent Examples of singleness 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 This symbolizes my walking into singleness. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023 Lucy Anguiano, 54, a marketing and promotions manager for a media company and a lifelong workaholic who partly attributes her singleness to her love of her job, had formerly observed a strict labor demarcation between her Manhattan Beach, Calif., apartment and her L.A. office. Belinda Luscombe, Time, 17 Apr. 2021 See all Example Sentences for singleness 
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Noun
  • In defining these mystical experiences — a task akin to pinning a Flubber tail on a cosmically large donkey — the Hopkins team drew on the work of Walter Stace, an English philosopher who argued that this melding sense of oneness with the universe is the classic mystical experience.
    Cassady Rosenblum, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2024
  • There is no person, no moment, no experience, devoid of the all-pervasive oneness of the Ribbono shel Olam.
    Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • The Fall was filmed over four years, with various production singularities that have since become infamous among the film’s devoted fanbase.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The creation of pattern through repetition—turning a thing into a field the way Peeples-Bright typically does—trades in singularity and apartness for a new, larger community and sense of rhythm.
    Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The peculiarity of this photographic work lies in its modern view, through the people who have kept their clothes as heirlooms and pass them on to the next generation while using them on customary and festive occasions spontaneously, updating the mechanisms of tradition as a process.
    PhotoVogue, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Such peculiarity encourages reconsideration of this otherwise unexceptional comedy.
    Armond White, National Review, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Chan's lighthearted commentary on the idiosyncrasies from their older counterparts provides a humorous lens through which .
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Director Morii, according to the festival’s notes, spent a month traveling along the route himself, and that familiarity with the area’s idiosyncrasies and winding paths comes across loud and clear.
    Kambole Campbell, IndieWire, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • His characters are so recognizably, painfully millennial because their selfhood is so obviously mediated by the Internet; their instincts are inextricable from their upbringing in an online ecosystem that seizes every individual’s desires and vulnerabilities as fodder for profit and exploitation.
    Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have been treated as separate entities, one concerned with the physical world and validated by objective empirical testing, the other, largely, with subjective selfhood and human meaning.
    Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, The Mercury News, 13 July 2024
Noun
  • Her focus on creating exceptional quality handbags with powerful statements of individuality and elegance, inspired by architecture, nature, and her global travels, immediately drew attention to the luxury space.
    Angela Chan-Danisi, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The film, released two months prior to Mean Girls, offers a more whimsical, over-the-top take on teenage dreams and individuality, showcasing Lola’s personal journey of self-expression, wrapped in a colorful, exaggerated world of drama and dreams.
    Jane LaCroix, People.com, 2 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • And so far, Stanford’s identity appears rooted in its outside shooting.
    Justice delos Santos, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Clear Secure continues to focus on expanding its identity platform offerings and increasing its member base through strategic partnerships and marketing initiatives.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • By the ensuing decades, individualism morphed from these personal freedoms into placing a premium on one’s uniqueness and personal choice.
    Allie Volpe, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Organizational leaders need to build a culture of trust and transparency, educating employees on how to be skeptical consumers and conveyors of truth—celebrating the nationalism that connects them across the organization while also celebrating the individualism that often drives innovation.
    Steve Durbin, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024

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“Singleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/singleness. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.

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