as in free spirit
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Noun
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Olivia is more of a free spirit, and she’s made friends with the mayor of Montezara, Francesca (Violante Placido), who is beautiful, around Eric’s age and full of big plans for her little town.—
Alissa Wilkinson,
New York Times,
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The two women have somewhat opposing personalities — Dreux is a waitress who is trying her hardest to level up to being a franchise manager, and Alyssa is a painter and free spirit who is more than willing to sit back and let the universe work everything out for her.—
James Factora,
Them,
17 Jan. 2025
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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
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Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2024
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From frame one, Bob Dylan, the creation, the idea, the trickster, the lone wolf, without attitude or affectation, your Dylan was no imitation.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
12 Feb. 2025
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And this is all in addition to investigators who have been combing through intelligence, looking for possible bad actors or even the most common fear among law enforcement, the lone wolf attacker.—
Jason Morris,
CNN,
6 Feb. 2025
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In the same year that 5,000-1 outsider Leicester shocked all and sundry by winning the 2015-16 Premier League, the Broncos were underdogs in the Super Bowl but beat the Carolina Panthers.—
Eduardo Tansley,
The Athletic,
17 Feb. 2025
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But there’s also this general notion of Melissa being an outsider and needing to perform for the group.—
Lauren Coates,
Variety,
15 Feb. 2025
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For over a decade, Grimes delighted the public with hilariously dilettante and enfant terrible press bits.—
Alexandra Bregman,
Forbes,
1 Dec. 2024
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Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
9 Dec. 2024
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At the height of the action, when St. Crispin’s Day and her band of misfits deploy the semiotic transponder, a barrage of words that should arrive with a gut-flipping wallop hits more above the neck than below it.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2025
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Jared Hess’ 2004 cult classic about a pack of misfits growing up in Preston, Idaho, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to mixed results.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
5 Feb. 2025
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The folly of swapping him out for Ibrahimovic, football’s most brash individualist outside of Cristiano Ronaldo, was exposed in less than a year.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
5 Feb. 2025
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Kai Havertz’s finishing, for example, or Kylian Mbappe’s work rate, or the gradual erosion of Jack Grealish’s maverick edge.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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Overall, there were palpable achievements, not a few of which involved reminding Americans of the importance of core structural values as the maverick extremes of political discourse exploded in their influence.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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