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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
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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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Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2024
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The tenacity of the lone wolf myth has several sources.—
Alex Hinton,
The Conversation,
17 June 2025
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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
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If the home itself is considered part of the barrier that stops outsiders from getting into an in-ground pool, Arizona law requires the homeowner to take an extra precaution to protect people in the home, like children, from the water.—
Elena Santa Cruz,
AZCentral.com,
12 July 2025
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Not Peter Parker levels of bullying and angst, but existential uncertainty and the feeling of being an outsider.—
Daniel Dockery,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Although Americans are individualists, we’re still expected to go home for the holidays and to cite our parents as our greatest sources of inspiration.—
Anesce Dremen,
Longreads,
3 July 2025
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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
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Long a getaway for elite sun seekers and a proving ground for maverick architects, Palm Springs and the surrounding communities have become a sandbox for provenance collectors.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
3 July 2025
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Twenty years later, Frey sees himself as a maverick and dismisses the controversy with a string of expletives.—
Brendan Fitzgerald,
Longreads,
25 June 2025
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