as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society
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as in bohemian
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
there's always one maverick who has to go his own way
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Recent Examples of maverick
Stephen Kalin,
WSJ,
8 Dec. 2022
As the label carved out a space for pop’s true maverick weirdos, Harle became notable for his classically pristine pop production, evident on collaborations with Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen.
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Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
5 Dec. 2022
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
Andrew Yang enjoys being a maverick.
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Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Adjective
This week’s visit will be scrutinized for clues about the trajectory of a more maverick Saudi foreign policy.
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Stephen Kalin,
WSJ,
8 Dec. 2022
As the label carved out a space for pop’s true maverick weirdos, Harle became notable for his classically pristine pop production, evident on collaborations with Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen.
—
Brittany Spanos,
Rolling Stone,
5 Dec. 2022
Noun
Robbins wrote, directed, and starred in the film about a conservative folk singer, Bob Roberts, whose maverick campaign for Senate is documented by a British filmmaker.
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Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
3 June 2026
Andrew Yang enjoys being a maverick.
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Jack Kubinec,
Fortune,
2 June 2026
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Five long-standing Iranian dissident groups, including PJAK, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Freedom Party, had formed an alliance, Reuters also reported.
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Dislocation from tariffs, onshoring, war, oil, and supply shocks present opportunities for dissident shareholders to show laggards the way.
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Moon was a trailblazer and iconoclast.
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Zulfi is an iconoclast and a hustler, a man who dreams of opening a Muslims-only version of Uber and who, even in the face of Shah’s elitism and English society’s broader wariness, holds onto an unshakable optimism.
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Your unconventional ideas land better when people can experience them instead of only hearing about them.
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While seemingly an unconventional choice, Sandler, Swift and Kelce have been in each other's orbit for several years.
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With its loose ends and digressions, Dream Me a Dream stays true to those idiosyncratic instincts while retaining enough of the welcoming glow of Dance of Love to make this an affecting farewell from an endearing eccentric.
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The eccentric cuz is quick to try and help Bobby solve problems, which often gets him into trouble, but ultimately pushes him out of his shell.
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Once Into the Wild hit shelves, McCandless' individualist intrigue became a phenomenon that may never have happened if Krakauer hadn't brought the story to the masses.
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The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.
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At least Guillén still speaks his mind on the Sox’s pre- and postgame shows, so maybe there’s hope for nonconformists after all.
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Unlike her sister Daphne, Eloise's character is a nonconformist regarding society's ideals of what a woman should be, and her outfits portray that.
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Tough loner Daryl, who has no counterpart in the Walking Dead comic books, arguably became the original’s show biggest breakout character before getting his own story.
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So someone that is a loner, someone who is strange, someone like that is more likely to be an arsonist, is more likely to be a mass shooter.
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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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