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Noun
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Anna is a free spirit who marches to the beat of her own drum.—
Lisa Stardust,
People.com,
8 Aug. 2025 -
Ultimately, though, Kim chose to give his rose to Faith, a free spirit and fellow Washingtonian.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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As Kissinger understood, even lone rangers need friends.—
MARGARET MACMILLAN,
Foreign Affairs,
21 July 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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These are fairly simple and widely understood forms of doping—the kind of thing a lone wolf could pull off.—
Alex Hutchinson,
Outside Online,
25 July 2025
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Infused into his mundane, bluesy trap music is a lone wolf spirit that comes from being an only child whose father was incarcerated for most of his childhood and whose mother worked into the night.—
Alphonse Pierre,
Pitchfork,
18 July 2025
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This outsider spirit still powers the Great North Run, which is now preparing for its 44th staging on Sunday.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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What started as a protest against outsiders controlling the town turned into a decades-long tradition that still lives on today.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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The spectacular failure of aspiring enfant terrible David Hogg this week in the first test of his youth movement in an Arizona House primary would seem to point in the same direction, but look closer.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
18 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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Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb in the series, the curmudgeonly and flatulent chief of Slough House where all the MI5 misfits are sent.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Figgis interviews Coppola several times, also speaking with key cast members (especially LaBeouf and a cheeky Aubrey Plaza), as well as a few long-time collaborators like George Lucas, who doesn’t expect anything less from his old friend and fellow Hollywood maverick.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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