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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quixote
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Further reading: Trump wants to end this GOP maverick’s political career.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2025 -
Since the Second World War, the United States has exercised de-facto military control over Greenland, thanks to the maverick diplomat Henrik Kauffmann, who, as Denmark’s envoy to Washington in 1941, granted the U.S. control over its security.—
Louise Bokkenheuser,
The New Yorker,
11 Mar. 2025
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Could Republicans repeat their past mistakes and put a screwball candidate up in midterms?—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
14 Mar. 2025
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Based loosely on real events, the screwball farce tells the story of a group of British intelligence officers who devise a plan to distract the Nazis from invading Sicily.—
Barbara Schuler,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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German immigrants founded and built the club, and in later decades Nature Friends became a hub for numerous groups: some esoteric, some nonconformist and others looking for a rustic place to chill.—
R. Daniel Foster,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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Invariably, memorials devoted to these two nonconformists emphasized their complicated personalities.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 July 2024
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Listen to your doctor, not kooks like Bobby Kennedy and Dave Weldon.—
New York Daily News,
Twin Cities,
21 Mar. 2025
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Its inner acolytes came across, by contrast, as uncannily contrived kooks.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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Popular culture’s usual parade of toothless codgers and crones increasingly seemed obsolete.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
25 Nov. 2024
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Otto is also suicidal — something A Man Called Otto never sufficiently dramatizes, cheapening the codger’s despair as the film prepares for the feel-good ending to come.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
2 Nov. 2024
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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,
21 Mar. 2025
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Attracting talent for greater innovation hazards acquiring a few eccentrics whose gifts come wrapped in controversial packaging.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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That’s what Elliot (Rudd) and his daughter Ridley (Ortega) confront while on a journey to a retreat hosted by Elliot’s greedy crackpot boss (Grant).—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
21 Mar. 2025
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With Mickey 17, Pattinson doubles down (literally) on the crackpot touches and gives Bong’s follow-up to Parasite a true sense of unpredictable, undeniable lunacy.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
8 Mar. 2025
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Parker Posey, Jason Isaacs, Walton Goggins and everyone else are doing a terrific job as rich weirdos in Thailand facing various existential crises.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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What about actually getting SpaceGhostPurrp or an underground weirdo on a track?—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
19 Mar. 2025
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“Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixote. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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