as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
that guy in tech support is a loner, and never wants to hang out with the rest of us
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Recent Examples of loner
The fleeting but fulfilling chance encounter between the two young loners has the air of a meet-cute tale, and there’s certainly a romantic feel to how their situation develops.
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Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025
And stuff each song with lyrics about '20s-generation malaise and deranged loners?
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Sketching swastikas and 'edgy' jokes: Idaho shooter not typical loner
Who is Wess Roley?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Foxes are loners, solitary creatures that get busy making families during winter breeding season and have litters at the end of March or early April.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
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Josh Slater-Williams, IndieWire, 17 Aug. 2025
And stuff each song with lyrics about '20s-generation malaise and deranged loners?
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Sketching swastikas and 'edgy' jokes: Idaho shooter not typical loner
Who is Wess Roley?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Foxes are loners, solitary creatures that get busy making families during winter breeding season and have litters at the end of March or early April.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for loner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loner
Noun
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One is Shinjiro Koizumi, the 44-year-old son of maverick former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who led the country from 2001 to 2006.—
Chad de Guzman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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In the early 70s, the British maverick had already made a name for himself with Deliverance, which was the kind of artsy genre flick championed by a New Hollywood whose directors owed more to the European arthouse than to classic studio fare.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Although Americans are individualists, we’re still expected to go home for the holidays and to cite our parents as our greatest sources of inspiration.—
Anesce Dremen,
Longreads,
3 July 2025
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For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
5 Sep. 2025
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For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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