as in bohemian
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
a lone wolf in the art world, he has his own style and paints only to please himself
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Recent Examples of lone wolf
Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In the Jon Watts film, out today in a limited theatrical run and hitting Apple TV+ on Sept. 27, Clooney and Pitt play professional fixers who operate only as lone wolves.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
Crypto may paint itself as an industry of lone wolves and iconoclasts, but its promise of riches (and sure, disruptive technology) has attracted some of the world’s biggest capital allocators, from sovereign wealth funds to endowments.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2024
Lou is peeling back the layers of a certain kind of maleness: the lone wolf, the madman, the genius left to his own devices.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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The left had dismissed the concept of the lone wolf in the hopes of advocating for gun-control laws, so the right was free to gleefully perform the role liberals had written for themselves.
—Yiyun Li, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
In the Jon Watts film, out today in a limited theatrical run and hitting Apple TV+ on Sept. 27, Clooney and Pitt play professional fixers who operate only as lone wolves.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Sep. 2024
Crypto may paint itself as an industry of lone wolves and iconoclasts, but its promise of riches (and sure, disruptive technology) has attracted some of the world’s biggest capital allocators, from sovereign wealth funds to endowments.
—Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2024
Lou is peeling back the layers of a certain kind of maleness: the lone wolf, the madman, the genius left to his own devices.
—Grace Edquist, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lone wolf
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Screaming and antisocial behavior may not seem like beloved traits, but these penguins are revered in Māori culture as taonga, or treasure, even gracing the country’s $5 bill.Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
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The biggest concern, according to eugenicists, was that these antisocial tendencies were inborn—that genes for crime and poverty were being smuggled into the country in the blood of immigrants.Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2024
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Ives’s legendary status initially rested on his reputation as a maverick pioneer who supposedly had beaten Schoenberg in the race to the atonal pole.Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Many lament that the shortlist for the Ballon d'Or is now comprised of players who aren't mavericks or 'ballers' but stars whose genius is excelling or dominating a particular system.Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Yellowstone is famously written by one lone man named Taylor Sheridan who will not accept help.Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Wildlife managers were seeing lower hunter success rates, and at that time, harvest reports were their lone source of insight into moose numbers.Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 6 Nov. 2024
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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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Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
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To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
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Watch on Deadline Seen in flashbacks mostly set in or around 1972, Sarah (Rothe) is a witty, free spirit from the big city with an ardent passion for activism, and trying to avoid the conventional/traditional life of a young woman in the ’70s.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
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While their music continues to evolve, their unapologetically free spirit that electrified that June night in 2013 remains the core of their sound.Sara Ibrahim, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2024
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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
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The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
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But Hollinghurst began as a sort of enfant terrible.Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
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For an enfant terrible, Munk is surprisingly modest and self-effacing.Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Lone wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lone%20wolf. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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