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Recent Examples of free-spirited
Wood brought an innocence and free-spirited energy on The White Lotus season 3 as Chelsea.
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Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Recorded in home studios and retreats filled with friendships and free-spirited experimentation, Cripple Crow felt more like a collective effort than a solo project.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
Alice is an epic saga diving into the struggles and triumphs of an extraordinary, free-spirited woman who helped shape the birth of cinema.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Kane will play Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice, excitement, and her husband, Clive.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Kane plays Clive’s wife Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice and excitement.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Lloyd is set to play Clive, a man who loses his phone at the bar and returns to retrieve it while Kane stars as Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice, excitement and her husband Clive.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The rugged and brooding Cody is pulled out of the shadows of his past by Ali, a free-spirited cowgirl.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Harris portrays a free-spirited yet quick-calculating middleman with playful wit.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Carson Blackwelder, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
Recorded in home studios and retreats filled with friendships and free-spirited experimentation, Cripple Crow felt more like a collective effort than a solo project.
—Isabela Raygoza, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
Alice is an epic saga diving into the struggles and triumphs of an extraordinary, free-spirited woman who helped shape the birth of cinema.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
Kane will play Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice, excitement, and her husband, Clive.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Kane plays Clive’s wife Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice and excitement.
—Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
Lloyd is set to play Clive, a man who loses his phone at the bar and returns to retrieve it while Kane stars as Theresa, a free-spirited woman in pursuit of justice, excitement and her husband Clive.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2025
The rugged and brooding Cody is pulled out of the shadows of his past by Ali, a free-spirited cowgirl.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025
Harris portrays a free-spirited yet quick-calculating middleman with playful wit.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for free-spirited
Adjective
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Many users have nontraditional income, live in multigenerational households or face language barriers.—
Rathi Murthy,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Notably, the campaign made a more direct effort to court young voters on nontraditional media platforms.—
Elena Moore,
NPR,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Too cruel, too pointed, and way too out-there, at least in the world that Roach and McNamara have previously knit together.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
26 Aug. 2025
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What were some other out-there ideas that never came to fruition?—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But the 1960s took hold and being iconoclastic became fashion.—
Martine Paris,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Her snide answers to their belittling questions are smart and iconoclastic, setting the stage for the other characters in the movie who also think outside the box.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The design was by aviation legend Burt Rutan, known for his bold and often maverick creations.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2023
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Sinema has modeled her political approach on the maverick style of the late Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, who alienated the grassroots of his party by sometimes crossing the aisle to work with Democrats.—
Time,
Time,
23 Jan. 2023
Adjective
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This situation has raised the question once again as to whether the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) should create a special category for dissident filmmakers who are barred from representing their countries.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
10 Sep. 2025
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In Northern Ireland, dissident IRA groups launched attacks even after the Good Friday Agreement was concluded in 1998, which formally ended the Troubles.—
Alpaslan Ozerdem,
The Conversation,
2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These statements were heretical in Athens, where Anaxagoras lived.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
20 Aug. 2025
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Although the French and Italian religious authorities welcomed their piety, those in Germany tended to suppress them as heretical and revolutionary.—
Michael Robbins,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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