as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
a cattle-ranching family that took some time in getting used to their daughter's nonconformist adoption of vegetarianism
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as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
always the nonconformist, she insisted on wearing red on St. Patrick's Day and not green like everyone else
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as in dissenter
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs
a nonconformist who was excommunicated from her church for her teachings
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Recent Examples of nonconformist
New York Times, 25 July 2022
Fedoras, trilbys and Panamas seem to proclaim the wearer as either an extravagant nonconformist or an anti-feminist reactionary.
—New York Times, 15 July 2022
The Return of Tanya Tucker is a fittingly unconventional portrait of a nonconformist.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
Former Portland Mayor Bud Clark, a nonconformist to the end, received a natural burial Feb. 12 at River View Cemetery in Southwest Portland.
—oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2022
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Ye, however, was widely known to be both a perfectionist and a nonconformist.
—New York Times, 25 July 2022
Fedoras, trilbys and Panamas seem to proclaim the wearer as either an extravagant nonconformist or an anti-feminist reactionary.
—New York Times, 15 July 2022
The Return of Tanya Tucker is a fittingly unconventional portrait of a nonconformist.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2022
Former Portland Mayor Bud Clark, a nonconformist to the end, received a natural burial Feb. 12 at River View Cemetery in Southwest Portland.
—oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2022
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That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 18 Dec. 2024
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That professed confidence in each’s own instincts and indifference to most dissident opinions is how both led the country and made some pretty colossal missteps.Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Neon has North American rights to Orwell, which will tell the story of the English maverick novelist known for searingly satirical critiques of authoritarianism.Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 1 Jan. 2025
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Jimmy Carter by Julian Zelizer (2010) Princeton history professor Julian Zelizer examines Carter's strategy as a maverick politician who was successful at communicating with and rallying voters disaffected by politics, but who faced challenges building a strong political coalition once in office.Teresa Xie, NPR, 30 Dec. 2024
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In 2013, Hecht was sworn in as chief justice by then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, another great dissenter whose views later became the majority.Eleanor Klibanoff, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Dec. 2024
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Andrew Ferguson, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to replace Khan as FTC chair, was the sole dissenter.Samantha Delouya, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
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Hart may be an unconventional one, but make no mistake.Morten Stig Jensen, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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That’s an unconventional set of positions for a utility player, but there’s no such thing as too much catcher depth and the Twins are short on internal first-base options after losing Carlos Santana and Alex Kirilloff.Aaron Gleeman, The Athletic, 30 Dec. 2024
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Today, only Arizona and Hawaii are the lone renegades, keeping their clocks constant on standard time.Sheldon H. Jacobson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
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Maybe that’s why this adaptation of the first-person-shooter franchise feels so by-the-numbers, as a renegade robot sparks a revolution by attaining a series of unlikely victories in a futuristic gladiatorial arena.Scott Meslow, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
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In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
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The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.Josh Bell, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
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This business is all about the little eccentrics out there who get lost in the shuffle.Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
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