EIGHT BALLS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

eight balls

noun

plural of eight ball

as in free spirits

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Students describe Oberlin as a kind of oasis, a place where high-school misfits can find a community of outsiders.

— Jesse Dougherty, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
Joe Kloc’s portrait of a group of outsiders living on boats in Marin County provides a record of a community many wish would quietly disappear.

— The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of outsiders

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For Jia, who has watched generations of Chinese talents develop in a variety of ways, his hope is for these Chinese mavericks playing in America to stay.

— Fred He, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
Carl Anka Trent Alexander-Arnold’s England career is a fascinating case study in why team sports can prefer the orthodox to the mavericks.

— The Athletic UK Staff, New York Times, 13 May 2026

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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
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.

— Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025

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