as in free spirit
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Noun
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Always seeking fun and new experiences, Phil’s a free spirit at heart.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025 -
That care-free spirit, as the film illustrates, hardly existed in a vacuum, emerging in part as a defiant response to darkening times.—
Christopher Vourlias,
Variety,
15 Mar. 2025
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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This team should be a part of the programmatic and executive teams rather than being a lone wolf.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Is your pet more of a loyal pack leader or a free-spirited lone wolf?—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
Noun
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The race became a bit of a proxy battle of sorts within the Democratic Party with Lee as the long-time progressive leader and the choice of many establishment leaders and Taylor running on a more moderate platform and positioning himself as an outsider who would bring change to the city.—
Jared Gans,
The Hill,
19 Apr. 2025
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Born with glowing white hair and mystical powers, Lucy has always felt like an outsider, even in the embrace of her loving family.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
9 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Now there’s another beautiful misfit, and it’s called the Renault 5 Turbo 3E. As the name suggests, this is the third generation of 5 Turbo and the E stands for electric.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Hence, grown-up Chris is a nomadic misfit with two talents: sharpshooting and solving quadratic equations.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
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Immigration has surged, and the United States has entered an individualist, conservative epoch.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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No other nation has more outstanding individualists.—
Philipp Lahm,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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At one point, that must have seemed like a sweet validation for Navarro, a maverick among prominent economists despite his Harvard Ph.D.—
Niall Stanage,
The Hill,
11 Apr. 2025
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So naturally, the series went in a totally different direction with the new boss, introducing him as a maverick who runs into danger and a chief whose leadership style is a far cry from Boden’s strong but kind-hearted approach.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
11 Apr. 2025
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