as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing
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Recent Examples of individualist
But at least the trash-talking, optimistic and individualist Eloise is back, after she was subdued by her rift with Penelope this year.
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
How, then, did programming become the domain of bearded nerds and manly individualists?
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
People working together seems to make competitive individualists and other absolutists uneasy.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2024
In a lot of respects, Kanye is the rap version of Kobe: a fierce individualist who grew up with relative class privilege and transcended that privilege through sheer ambition and courage.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
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Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 13 June 2024
How, then, did programming become the domain of bearded nerds and manly individualists?
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
People working together seems to make competitive individualists and other absolutists uneasy.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 18 Feb. 2024
In a lot of respects, Kanye is the rap version of Kobe: a fierce individualist who grew up with relative class privilege and transcended that privilege through sheer ambition and courage.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualist
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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
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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
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In the 1938 classic The Adventures of Robin Hood, Robin Hood is a happy iconoclast, meting out his form of social and political justice with the cheerful irreverence and deft strokes of Errol Flynn, cinema’s premier swashbuckler.Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Nov. 2024
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But the internal battle between traditionalist Republicans, like McCarthy, and far-right iconoclasts, like Gaetz, has been no contest: Gaetz beat Dimmock by 45 points.Mike Lillis, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
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Iceland, the hunky loner currently renting Sam’s family farm with his dog Wesley.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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Heraclitus was a loner, according to the sketchy accounts of him, and rather a crank.David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Individualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualist. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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