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Recent Examples of individualistic
The Lowdown and The Woman in Cabin 10 (10/10) are more individualistic.
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Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Use words, phrases, and approaches that deviate from traditional power-play leadership to cultivate a revolutionary, individualistic leadership style.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The downside is that some more quirky, individualistic things probably won’t be made as much.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
What an institution like the Dorf celebrates can be harder to define for those who grew up in a highly individualistic culture.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Western pop is more individualistic, focused on solo acts and features more explicit content.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 June 2025
Emma Alpern, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2025
Use words, phrases, and approaches that deviate from traditional power-play leadership to cultivate a revolutionary, individualistic leadership style.
—Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The downside is that some more quirky, individualistic things probably won’t be made as much.
—Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2025
What an institution like the Dorf celebrates can be harder to define for those who grew up in a highly individualistic culture.
—Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2025
Western pop is more individualistic, focused on solo acts and features more explicit content.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 June 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualistic
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Charter schools are overseen by independent boards, overwhelmingly, like nonprofit boards of directors that manage the oversight and then follow all or most of the same government rules related to public schools.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Employers increasingly wonder whether campuses are cultivating independent thinkers or just cautious followers.—
Sarah Hernholm,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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It is designed to enable operator decisions in real time, providing the human touch while teleoperating robotic systems and tasking them with complex autonomous functions.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Though many are optimistic over the long term if Musk can pull off a transformation of the company to focus more on autonomous driving, artificial intelligence and robotics.—
John Melloy,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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Many of his supporters responded to his death with messages of grief, but his critics were either indifferent or celebratory.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Sep. 2025
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Institutions that once functioned for the benefit of the public are now sclerotic, having been partly dismantled, or seem indifferent to suffering.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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This might have been an attempt to go after a nature-of-storytelling tale like The Princess Bride, but the two leads have zero chemistry and Reiner’s execution is clunky and disinterested.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
13 Sep. 2025
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The Nets, for their part, seemed disinterested in locking him down, too.—
Alex Kirschenbaum,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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For a longer journey, Johnson is impartial to his Osprey Aether pack for its airscape back panels, floating lids, and signature Fit on the Fly adjustments.—
Jillian Dara,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Sep. 2025
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Our department is committed to a thorough and impartial review.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
10 Sep. 2025
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Only 43 percent of respondents think the charges against Trump will be adjudicated fairly by a neutral judge and an unprejudiced jury.—
Noah Rothman,
National Review,
20 Dec. 2023
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Bheem’s courtship of the governor’s unprejudiced niece (a charming Oliva Morris), which provides some comic relief, not that anything in the film is really meant to be taken seriously.—
Frank Scheck,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Nov. 2022
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But levying strict discipline has so far been football’s most visible attempt to ensure the competition on the field is fair and uninfluenced, a key to maintaining consumer confidence.—
Emmanuel Morgan,
New York Times,
1 July 2023
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Frosh said his reason for not confirming the names associated with cases under review is that the process must remain uninfluenced by grieving families or police officers.—
Jim Axelrod, Andy Bast, Michael Kaplan,
CBS News,
22 Dec. 2022
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This ensures our advice is unbiased and always in our clients’ best interest, not swayed by potential commissions or emotional market reactions.—
Gabriel Shahin,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Employers must also make sure that workplace policies, such as how duties are assigned and how pay is set, are fair and unbiased.—
Deborah Widiss,
The Conversation,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Individualistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualistic. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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