as in bohemians
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing
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Recent Examples of individualists
Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualists
Noun
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Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.—
Andrew Gilbert,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The fleeting but fulfilling chance encounter between the two young loners has the air of a meet-cute tale, and there’s certainly a romantic feel to how their situation develops.—
Josh Slater-Williams,
IndieWire,
17 Aug. 2025
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And stuff each song with lyrics about '20s-generation malaise and deranged loners?—
EW Staff Published,
EW.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Individualists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualists. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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