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adjective

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Recent Examples of lone wolf
Noun
Some of these things run deeper in terms of the lone wolf element. CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025 Ray takes a moment to soak in the warm, comfortable house and bustling family breakfast table and scarfs down a couple of stray pieces of bacon — scarcity mindset of the all-American lone wolf. Andy Andersen, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025 The two lone wolves traverse a wasteland of vast canyons, derelict cityscapes and blazing oil fields, digitally rendered on blue screens. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025 Dönitz Turned Submarines Into Wolves Of The Deep Admiral Karl Dönitz understood that a lone submarine, much like a lone wolf, had its limits. Scott Travers, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lone wolf
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lone wolf
Adjective
  • Stanley Hudson, Angela Martin, and Karen Filippelli As far as being antisocial is concerned, Stanley Hudson takes the cake.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Playing Seok required learning more about antisocial behavior and yet the character is more than a textbook example of a disorder.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • At one point, that must have seemed like a sweet validation for Navarro, a maverick among prominent economists despite his Harvard Ph.D.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 11 Apr. 2025
  • So naturally, the series went in a totally different direction with the new boss, introducing him as a maverick who runs into danger and a chief whose leadership style is a far cry from Boden’s strong but kind-hearted approach.
    Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Eichel’s lone hat trick of the season came on March 25 at Xcel Energy Center in a 5-1 win over the Wild.
    Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Coogler wrote Remmick as an empathetic and charismatic villain — so much so that IndieWire critic David Ehrlich’s lone knock on the film is that, by design, the darkness of the vampires is more about the fun of being alive than the usual horror movie terror.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Apr. 2025
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
Adjective
  • Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
  • To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Always seeking fun and new experiences, Phil’s a free spirit at heart.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • That care-free spirit, as the film illustrates, hardly existed in a vacuum, emerging in part as a defiant response to darkening times.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.
    Nick CanepaColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Lone wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lone%20wolf. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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