eight ball

noun

Definition of eight ballnext
as in free spirit

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  1. free spirit
  2. lone ranger
  3. lone wolf
  4. outsider
  5. enfant terrible
  6. misfit
  7. individualist
  8. maverick
Noun
  • But as an adventure-loving free spirit, Héra would much rather spend her days out in the wilderness with her horse instead of being saddled with royal responsibilities.
    Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The Emirates, in fairness, is perhaps not the ideal environment to hand such an attacking free spirit a first Premier League start.
    Paul Taylor, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of free spirit
Noun
  • And while his rivals have landed serious blows against him, he’s embraced the tabloid-style frenzy at each of those junctures, incorporating them into his narrative identity as an underappreciated lone ranger constantly battling the world.
    TIME, TIME, 7 May 2024
  • Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
Definition of lone ranger
Noun
  • Currently, there are nine packs living in the northern areas of the Golden State, along with several lone wolves.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Wolfs stars Pitt and Clooney, 63, as two professional fixers and lone wolves who are accidentally assigned to the same job and forced to work together.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2024
Definition of lone wolf
Noun
  • The Thunder up until then had been complaining about a lack of respect toward them from outsiders.
    Joe Vardon, The Athletic, 14 Dec. 2024
  • When supply chain chaos collided with booming demand for consumer electronics during the pandemic, the resulting chip shortage exposed the big risks of relying on outsiders for such a critical technology.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of outsider
Noun
  • Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The political enfants terribles of the Left, Right, and center are stuck with one another until July 2025 — the soonest that another snap election can be called.
    Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of enfant terrible
Noun
  • The Wizard of Oz Effect In the movie The Wizard of Oz, there’s a scene where the protagonist, Dorothy, and her band of misfits are seeking the great and powerful Oz, an amorphous wizard who appears as a phantom atop an explosion of smoke.
    Steve Tengler, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Surrounded by a group of military misfits, the colonel tries to reinstate discipline and professionalism with the help of the base’s previous interim leader, who happens to be his estranged daughter (Taylor Misiak).
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of misfit
Noun
  • Radical individualists come to environmentalism from a different place than other people who support the cause.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This season, the Yankees have embraced right-hander Marcus Stroman and left fielder Alex Verdugo, two players who, like Chisholm, occasionally come off as individualists.
    Ken Rosenthal, The Athletic, 24 July 2024
Definition of individualist
Noun
  • One of the most glaring moments of defiance came in January 2022, when both maverick senators voted against a Democratic proposal to carve out the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass voting rights legislation.
    Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The maverick says he was almost wiped out by the 1997 Asian financial crisis and again in December 2004 when a tsunami roared across many parts of Asia, killing at least 225,000 people, including guests and staff at his Anantara resort at Khao Lak, north of Phuket.
    Ron Gluckman, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of maverick
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