as in free spirit
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Noun
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Utsav was a free spirit who hadn’t worked a traditional job in three years.—
Shobha Dasari,
New York Times,
3 Jan. 2025 -
And a little bit of my free spirit is gone for sure.—
Lexy Perez,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
Noun
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Like this lone wolf animal out there, this coyote just running around the field and Tommy’s looking at him with a kinship, but then he is killed right before his eyes.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
12 Jan. 2025
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Some of these things run deeper in terms of the lone wolf element.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Wilks was an outsider Shanahan never felt comfortable with.—
Jerry McDonald,
The Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2025
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Cardinal Benitez — The Substance An outsider who appears to have materialized out of thin air.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
23 Jan. 2025
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For over a decade, Grimes delighted the public with hilariously dilettante and enfant terrible press bits.—
Alexandra Bregman,
Forbes,
1 Dec. 2024
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Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
9 Dec. 2024
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Quitting misfit jobs is just an interlude in their pursuit of AI excellence to gift humans a brave new age of passion and leisure, as AI agents do our bidding.—
Aditya Malik,
Forbes,
8 Jan. 2025
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As a result, Cookie sold out online and was twice restocked, so fervent was everyone’s love for the misfit toy.—
Kate Lindsay,
Vulture,
2 Jan. 2025
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This strain of individualism has remained strong in U.S. politics: Individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic opportunity are the foundations of American life, individualists say, so each person should win or lose on their own.—
Jay Feinman,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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Fighting is a brutal and individualist sport, and orienting your life around violence can lend itself to seeing the world in harsh absolutes.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
14 Jan. 2025
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Overall, there were palpable achievements, not a few of which involved reminding Americans of the importance of core structural values as the maverick extremes of political discourse exploded in their influence.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Kai Havertz’s finishing, for example, or Kylian Mbappe’s work rate, or the gradual erosion of Jack Grealish’s maverick edge.—
Rory Smith,
The Athletic,
19 Jan. 2025
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