as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing
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Recent Examples of individualist
What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?
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Ed Simon
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
For nineteenth century individualists, essentialists, and naturalists, the point should be to walk for walking’s sake, not for fame or outward fitness or money.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
No other nation has more outstanding individualists.
—Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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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Ed Simon
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
For nineteenth century individualists, essentialists, and naturalists, the point should be to walk for walking’s sake, not for fame or outward fitness or money.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 Mar. 2025
No other nation has more outstanding individualists.
—Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for individualist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualist
Noun
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Most of our mavericks who fly that close to the sun never get to see that journey through.—
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson,
Rolling Stone,
30 Oct. 2025
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Still, his detective instincts are ultimately reawakened, and his new department becomes a magnet for a crew of misfits and mavericks.—
Rosy Cordero,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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The portrait that emerges from Kroll’s reporting is that of a man who is equal parts government technocrat, political operator and zealous iconoclast.—
Lisa Riordan Seville,
ProPublica,
17 Oct. 2025
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Both men were iconoclasts who took MTV’s money and ran with it, adopting a collage approach to the news in which information was conveyed to the audience without the intermediary of an anchor or host, often with cuts that allowed shots to play out for only a fraction of a second.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
16 Oct. 2025
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White smartly leans into an overall loner vibe that suggests someone lost in the wilderness of his own isolation.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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The community-centric atmosphere of today’s climbing gyms signals a departure from the sensibility of bygone eras, when climbers styled themselves as misfits and loners set apart from society at-large.—
Kelli María Korducki,
HubSpot,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Individualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualist. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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