eight balls

noun

plural of eight ball
as in free spirits

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  1. outsiders
  2. misfits
  3. mavericks
  4. individualists
  5. deviants
  6. heretics
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  • The case for not outgrowing your imagination What outsiders looking at Abu Dhabi’s transformation often miss is what has powered its economic growth, Al Mubarak says.
    — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 13 Nov. 2026
  • That backdoor gave outsiders remote access without the owners knowing.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 13 Nov. 2026
Definition of outsiders
Noun
  • Lee’s films have often zeroed in on misfits and outcasts, cut off from society’s embrace.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Her little acts of rebellion towards her tyrannical teachers attract the admiration of three other misfits and the four girls form an inseparable group.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of misfits
Noun
  • Willie Roberts is one of Kenya's great conservation mavericks.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Nov. 2026
  • 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
Definition of mavericks
Noun
  • 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
Definition of individualists
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  • Cool people aren't merely deviants.
    — Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of deviants
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  • As Democratic heretics go, Representative Dan Goldman isn’t guilty of many crimes against his party.
    — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026
  • Those who don’t cling to the faith are heretics.
    — Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of heretics
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