as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
that guy in tech support is a loner, and never wants to hang out with the rest of us
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Recent Examples of loner
Whether driven by social apathy or artistic passion, James—effortlessly played by O’Connor with hangdog elegance—registers as a compelling update of the ’70s American male loner archetype for another dispiriting, directionless time.
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Sketching swastikas and 'edgy' jokes: Idaho shooter not typical loner
Who is Wess Roley?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Foxes are loners, solitary creatures that get busy making families during winter breeding season and have litters at the end of March or early April.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
The musical isn’t buying into the Elvis mythology of the brooding loner with magnetic sensuality.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
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Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
Sketching swastikas and 'edgy' jokes: Idaho shooter not typical loner
Who is Wess Roley?
—Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 24 July 2025
Foxes are loners, solitary creatures that get busy making families during winter breeding season and have litters at the end of March or early April.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2025
The musical isn’t buying into the Elvis mythology of the brooding loner with magnetic sensuality.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loner
Noun
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Figgis interviews Coppola several times, also speaking with key cast members (especially LaBeouf and a cheeky Aubrey Plaza), as well as a few long-time collaborators like George Lucas, who doesn’t expect anything less from his old friend and fellow Hollywood maverick.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Although Americans are individualists, we’re still expected to go home for the holidays and to cite our parents as our greatest sources of inspiration.—
Anesce Dremen,
Longreads,
3 July 2025
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For decades, sovereign citizens largely flew under the radar in Australia as relatively harmless eccentrics with a special interest in conspiracy theories.—
Hilary Whiteman,
CNN Money,
29 Aug. 2025
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Both towns are filled with lovable eccentrics, both treat community as a kind of moral center, and both ask us to consider what decency looks like at the local level.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Aug. 2025
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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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