as in free spirit
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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
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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
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Counter-terror investigators have been fighting lone wolves inspired by such campaigns for years, Mauro said.—
Michael Ruiz,
Fox News,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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That can be a daunting undertaking in a place like New Orleans, where a healthy skepticism of outsiders has long lingered in the civic psyche.—
David Hudnall,
Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2025
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Over the last two decades, these in-laws have been horrible toward me for simply being an outsider.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 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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What begins as a harmless joke evolves into a chaotic adventure, drawing in a cast of misfit characters, including gangsters and bumbling police officers.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
3 Feb. 2025
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Sheltered is a single-cam series that tells the story of the misfit volunteers at an overworked and underfunded pet rescue who often feel as complicated, lonely, and ‘unlovable’ as the difficult dogs and cats in their care.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 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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Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters.—
Corey G. Johnson,
ProPublica,
5 Feb. 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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