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Recent Examples of individualist No other nation has more outstanding individualists. Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025 Actual Ad The ad Cambridge sent to individualists depicts rows of U.S. flags in a field, an image widely associated with military sacrifice and remembrances of war. Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2025 The folly of swapping him out for Ibrahimovic, football’s most brash individualist outside of Cristiano Ronaldo, was exposed in less than a year. Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025 Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters. Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for individualist
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Chicago will be the only U.S. city to see the 92-year-old iconoclast Yoko Ono's new show.
    Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Season eight’s unapologetic iconoclast, Acid Betty, returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The plot centers on Nico, a 15-year-old loner bullied at school due to his parents’ funeral business.
    Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 May 2025
  • Louis-Dreyfus’ villainous character has positioned a number of MCU loners and rejects to kill each other for her own nefarious reasons.
    Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Individualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualist. Accessed 28 May. 2025.

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