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
All of the victims have been loners with no friends or family ties.
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
Today, one of the primary worries are loners whose rantings online are fed by others who are like-minded.
—Adam Geller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Each character is often an outlier, a loner or a misfit.
—Stuart Neal, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Can Kat trust her family or friends — or Josh? — ever again, or is she destined to become one of Manchester PD’s most vengeful loners.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
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Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2025
Today, one of the primary worries are loners whose rantings online are fed by others who are like-minded.
—Adam Geller, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Each character is often an outlier, a loner or a misfit.
—Stuart Neal, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
Can Kat trust her family or friends — or Josh? — ever again, or is she destined to become one of Manchester PD’s most vengeful loners.
—Marah Eakin, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for loner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for loner
Noun
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Further reading: Trump wants to end this GOP maverick’s political career.—
Emily Brooks,
The Hill,
13 Mar. 2025
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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
Noun
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Actual Ad The ad Cambridge sent to individualists depicts rows of U.S. flags in a field, an image widely associated with military sacrifice and remembrances of war.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
27 Feb. 2025
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The folly of swapping him out for Ibrahimovic, football’s most brash individualist outside of Cristiano Ronaldo, was exposed in less than a year.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Rachel does a great job conveying such collective endeavors and group dreaming, the whole circumference of people who support bands: friends of friends, drop-of-a-hat designers, stopgap agents, stall owners, dealers, grandparents with record collections, eccentrics without portfolios.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Would love to know what these career eccentrics make of the pomp and pageantry of the Grammys.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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