eight ball

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Noun
  • Marion, who wears his trademark cowboy hat, is big on energy and being a free spirit.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025
  • Exhausted and piqued after overhearing a patronizing conversation about David, Ester leaves in the caravan, taking her son on an impromptu drive, during which they are joined by livewire free spirit Zuza (Juliana Brutovska).
    Catherine Bray, Variety, 24 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • The tenacity of the lone wolf myth has several sources.
    Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
  • The classic stereotype, albeit not always accurate, is of the lone wolf with a basement full of Spam, a wall full of guns, and a mind full of conspiracy theories.
    Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • The opacity of the palace means no outsiders can know for sure.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 26 June 2025
  • While outsiders see the 45-minute indoor cycling class as just another workout, Webster understands that for SoulCycle riders, those 45 minutes feel more like a concert or a spiritual experience.
    Katherine Fung, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Blockbuster: Caravaggio 2025, Palazzo Barberini Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio—known far and wide as Caravaggio—was quite the enfant terrible.
    Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
  • From the get-go, many recognized Ms. Sagan as a genuine talent, with critics likening her to the fellow literary enfant terrible Colette.
    Sadie Stein, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The film follows four misfits as they are pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld, a cubic land that puts your imagination to the test.
    Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • The wildly popular Korean drama about a gaggle of misfits and screw-ups competing for money as well as their lives had a surprisingly great second season, with protagonist Gi-hun returning to the Games after four years to try and shut them down, only to be entangled in double-crosses and surprises.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • Immigration has surged, and the United States has entered an individualist, conservative epoch.
    Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • No other nation has more outstanding individualists.
    Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Compared to other presidents, Trump has been more of a maverick and solo act.
    Edward Segal, Forbes.com, 29 June 2025
  • Manfred Thierry Mugler, a fashion maverick known for sharp tailoring, hourglass silhouettes and a futuristic sheen, died in 2022 at age 73.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 June 2025
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“Eight ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eight%20ball. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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