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adjective

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Recent Examples of lone wolf
Noun
Considerations For Working With Investing Clubs With small-business investing, a lone wolf may get bogged down in a single acquisition and have to trade their time for money. Joseph Drups, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 The myth of the lone wolf entrepreneur couldn't be further from the truth. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025 From frame one, Bob Dylan, the creation, the idea, the trickster, the lone wolf, without attitude or affectation, your Dylan was no imitation. Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2025 Both agencies have previously warned of the risks posed by lone wolf actors radicalized by terror groups, including the difficulty of monitoring those who may wish to carry out deadly plots. Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 13 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lone wolf
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lone wolf
Adjective
  • As Magazine Dreams progresses, Maddox descends further into his antisocial tendencies and grows more destructive.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Stanley Hudson, Angela Martin, and Karen Filippelli As far as being antisocial is concerned, Stanley Hudson takes the cake.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Tony Award nominations, announced Thursday morning in New York, reflect the split-screen reality of a Broadway season divided by mavericks and mega-stars.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2025
  • Art Dubai is somewhat of a maverick within this market.
    Grace Banks, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Fairfield transfer Lou Lopez Senechal played nearly 32 minutes per game in her lone season with the Huskies in 2023-24, leading the team in 3-point percentage and averaging 15.5 points.
    Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2025
  • The lone exceptions might be Nikola Jovic and Kevin Love.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
Adjective
  • Ask Amy: My unsociable neighbor doesn't know about me and his wife.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 2 June 2024
  • To drink too much would be inexcusable; to drink too little would be unsociable.
    Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Always seeking fun and new experiences, Phil’s a free spirit at heart.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 8 Apr. 2025
  • That care-free spirit, as the film illustrates, hardly existed in a vacuum, emerging in part as a defiant response to darkening times.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 15 Mar. 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
  • Artist, filmmaker, and former enfant terrible Harmony Korine is closing in on the New York premiere of his latest film, Baby Invasion.
    Harrison Jacobs, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 9 Dec. 2024

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“Lone wolf.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lone%20wolf. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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