EIGHT BALLS Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

eight balls

noun

plural of eight ball

as in free spirits

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Gendron said his ancestors were among the first outsiders to settle the island in the 1700s, when three brothers, fur traders all, left Canada and followed the Mississippi south.

— Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
Like members of the Women’s Rights Convention, these outsiders often invoked the Declaration of Independence as a discursive weapon.

— Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026

Definition of outsiders

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As counselor, Nomi is responsible for the titular floaters, a small group of misfits who refuse to take part in the usual summer activities.

— Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
The Ramones stood on stage not as rock gods or unattainable heroes, but as oddballs, misfits, and fellow outcasts in torn jeans.

— Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

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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
The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.

— Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Apr. 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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