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lone-wolf

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adjective

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Recent Examples of lone-wolf
Noun
Highly effective CEOs resist the lone-wolf trap. Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025 After 24 years, the tactics of foreign terrorist organizations and lone-wolf actors have become increasingly sophisticated as technology has evolved. Andrew Garbarino, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
In a year where tour companies offer special packages for lone wolves, Morton has compiled a list of the 18 best solo trips to take around the world. John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 17 July 2025 But conflicts overseas and incidents sparked by domestic extremists, along with a threat assessment from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies warning about lone wolf attacks, have raised the threat level. Mark Morales, CNN Money, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for lone-wolf
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lone-wolf
Adjective
  • Someone with antisocial traits may appear calm most of the time, but suddenly react strongly to obstacles or conflict.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Lurking beneath the antisocial facade is a simmering sense of pride for these depths of depravity.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One is Shinjiro Koizumi, the 44-year-old son of maverick former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who led the country from 2001 to 2006.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 8 Sep. 2025
  • In the early 70s, the British maverick had already made a name for himself with Deliverance, which was the kind of artsy genre flick championed by a New Hollywood whose directors owed more to the European arthouse than to classic studio fare.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • And his lone Royals appearance was a spot start that lasted 2 ⅔ innings.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The City Council ultimately voted 5-1 to deny the appeal, with lone opposition from Council Member Doug Taylor.
    Rose Evans September 10, Idaho Statesman, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • As Kissinger understood, even lone rangers need friends.
    MARGARET MACMILLAN, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • Hospitality fared well in Deputy’s study, making up half of the 10 happiest job sectors, despite the sector’s reputation for high stress, unsociable hours, and low pay.
    Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
Noun
  • Pamela is a self-effacing free spirit whose honesty and abandonment cast a spell on the embittered Wendall.
    Rance Collins, IndieWire, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Anna is a free spirit who marches to the beat of her own drum.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • But when the homework clause was revealed, the enormous unsocial media fan was out there and the manure hit it with great force.
    Nick CanepaColumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2022
  • The choice of verbs on social media seems, to Miss Manners, to demonstrate a decidedly unsocial intent.
    Washington Post, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
Noun
  • The spectacular failure of aspiring enfant terrible David Hogg this week in the first test of his youth movement in an Arizona House primary would seem to point in the same direction, but look closer.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 18 July 2025
  • 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

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“Lone-wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lone-wolf. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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