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This fuzzy green hermit has become synonymous with Christmas-hating curmudgeons and greedy holiday buzzkills worldwide since Dr. Seuss introduced him in his 1957 children's book of the same name.
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
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Mike Miller, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
This is due to the fact that a hermit once lived here.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
After the hermit’s death, the farmhouse then served various community purposes, from a teacher’s cottage to a meeting hall, but had been neglected until recently, when the Queen Mother helped the community acquire ownership and renovate it.
—Jessica Jungbauer, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
Harrelson has a small but impressively loony role as a crazed hermit who claims to anyone who will listen that the end of days is here.
—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hermit
Noun
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However, Local Law 42, the law limiting solitary, requires 14 hours per day of out-of-cell time.—
Graham Rayman,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2025
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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
Noun
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The other is a recluse who lives elsewhere and publishes word and number puzzles under the pen name Ludwig.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Mar. 2025
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There’s something about the rap-pop recluse Yabujin’s music that captures this malfunctioning, ersatz charm like nothing else.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Even the oldest algae isolates can still actively produce oxygen, a measurement of photosynthetic performance found.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
1 Apr. 2025
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Genetic sequencing revealed striking similarities between the virus strains at these farms, with some isolates from the duck farm 100% identical to those found in the chicken farms.—
John Drake,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Hermit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hermit. Accessed 12 Apr. 2025.
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