as in free spirit
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Noun
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Her thoughtfulness, confidence and free spirit are truly inspirational.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
7 May 2025 -
Nicky, a reckless free spirit, is also Adam’s ex and the biological mother of Adam and Chloe’s teenage son, Ethan (Maxwell Acee Donovan).—
Noel Murray,
New York Times,
1 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 lone wolf lifestyle suits Charlie just fine — for a while.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
8 May 2025
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In the West, 93% of fatal attacks were carried out by lone wolf terrorists.—
Anders Hagstrom,
Fox News,
6 Mar. 2025
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These aren’t Silicon Valley outsiders guessing at what clinicians need.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
14 May 2025
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New York was and still is frequently enhanced by outsiders like Carter, and the U.S. is no different.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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That Charli’s performance went right into Green Day felt, more than most of Coachella’s adjacent performances, thematically apt, each indulging in an enfant terrible persona to create outsider art that eventually became insider art.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
15 Apr. 2025
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Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion.—
Harrison Jacobs,
ARTnews.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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The film watches as a misfit group of unwitting high school students stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
19 May 2025
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Middle grounds between them feel like awkward misfits.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
17 May 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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No other nation has more outstanding individualists.—
Philipp Lahm,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
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His legendary predecessor Sachin Tendulkar, an almost god-like figure in India, and Australian maverick Shane Warne, who lived a life of glitz and glamor, were similarly box office and, quite frankly, better Test cricketers.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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Around 2016, a poem about the Black polar explorer Matthew Henson by her friend Robin Coste Lewis—another maverick of the archives—helped inspire a series of paintings about the Arctic, which flood its frozen landscapes with electric blues.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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