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Are the vast mountain solitudes of British Columbia, of which but very few have been so far explored, populated by a hairy race of giants—men—not ape-like men?

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2023

“No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved,” he wrote.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2022

But the platform is more effective in collecting solitudes than in bringing strangers on a large scale meaningfully together.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2020

Who better to offer up an olive branch that can ease the hitherto irreconcilable tensions between Canada’s two solitudes?

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2020

He wandered through the wild solitudes of Thrace, comfortless except for his lyre, playing, always playing, and the rocks and the rivers and the trees heard him gladly, his only companions.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton