bachelorhood
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bachelorhood
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, Alice and Jimmy are too accustomed to the safety they’ve created in an emotional refuge that was always meant to be temporary: Childhood, in Alice’s case, bachelorhood in Jimmy’s.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
Rather, her story asks how her child might have fared, and how this would have fundamentally altered Alan’s eternal bachelorhood, and how they both might have felt about Dora.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2023
His long-term bachelorhood didn’t have the same effect on his family that Ms. McIntyre’s single status had on her mother.
From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2020
He fought free-speech battles in courts, defied segregation, drew accusations of exploitation, and lived a life of seemingly breezy bachelorhood as publicly as possible.
From The Guardian • Sep. 28, 2017
In those first years of joint bachelorhood, Lawrence and Oppenheimer were virtually inseparable.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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