as in free spirit
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Noun
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Redford played a conservative lawyer who marries Fonda, a free spirit.—
Victoria Edel,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026 -
But Nora is a free spirit who enjoys her liberation; of course, problems arise when the three men meet and decide to be more proactive about the situation.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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As Kissinger understood, even lone rangers need friends.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 2025
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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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This was a lone wolf, in my opinion.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Apr. 2026
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There’s a lone wolf fighting for his survival on his own.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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This is the relationship in which strangers are dangerous and mysterious, alien and foreign, unknown outsiders.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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This is not a niche problem that only affects a small class of outsiders.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
Noun
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The epitome of an enfant terrible, Rimbaud was a rebellious adolescent with a tempestuous personal life (ask fellow poet Paul Verlaine).—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
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Which means the former enfant terrible has now been enshrined as a member of the Establishment.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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It’s based on the dramatic and emotionally wrenching personal life of Southern Gothic author Carson McCullers, a physically frail but powerful novelist, adept at portraying the loneliness and isolation of misfits and outcasts.—
Marcia Luttrell,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Ohs makes small-cast features deeply grounded in particular places, following misfit characters who may or may not relate to them.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The forty-niners are elemental to our identity as a nation of brave, rugged individualists.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The time was ripe for the individualist, the pioneer, on the inventive front of industry.—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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Ted Turner, the maverick businessman and philanthropist who turned a financially struggling Atlanta TV station into a media empire around CNN, the first 24-hour cable news station, has died.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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Besides more on maverick Turner’s death, talking about that transaction was kind of the point today of anyone really listening to the soon-to-exiting WBD execs.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
6 May 2026
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“Eight ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eight%20ball. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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