as in free spirit
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Noun
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His mother does an admirable job of trying to keep him out of trouble, even if her efforts to steer him away from the paths that kept his father out of his life strike Rico as attempts to neuter his free spirit.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
31 Jan. 2025 -
As Alyssa, an artist who falls somewhere between free spirit and flake, SZA eases into her first acting role like someone who has been doing this all along.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
15 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 Edlin believes that the outsider art category does have a distinct culture.—
Hilarie M. Sheets,
New York Times,
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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Adam Elliot never shies away from an opportunity to turn societal misfits into people worthy of love and acceptance on screen.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
4 Feb. 2025
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Influenced by Robert Bresson's L'Argent (1983), Slacker bounces through town following the next interesting person to cross the frame in a daisy chain of oddballs and misfits.—
Brian Smolensky and James Mercadante,
EW.com,
27 Jan. 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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