free spirit

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Recent Examples of free spirit But Endo, a free spirit who was one of Angel City first international signings in 2021, was the first truly influential Japanese player in Southern California. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2025 Happy Birthday my sweet kind hearted free spirit girl @babychanelnicole. Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 29 Nov. 2024 Always seeking fun and new experiences, Phil’s a free spirit at heart. Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025 That care-free spirit, as the film illustrates, hardly existed in a vacuum, emerging in part as a defiant response to darkening times. Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for free spirit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for free spirit
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
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 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
  • The tenacity of the lone wolf myth has several sources.
    Alex Hinton, The Conversation, 17 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

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