Example Sentences

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I have been the young solipsist, the cocky college kid, the judgy midlife Karen.

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

He was a solipsist of the first waters whose paternalistic populism represented just as radical of a break with the American system as that of Woodrow Wilson.

From Fox News • Jul. 8, 2019

Orme is a loquacious self-explainer, which is another way of saying that he is a helpless solipsist.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

Dunham’s Hannah Horvath is not the type to ask many questions about the nature of art: She is a solipsist uninterested in real questions about solipsism.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2012

Certainly no one has shown a greater moral earnestness or a greater regard for his fellowmen than this philosopher, and we must not hastily accuse any one of being a solipsist.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart