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Recent Examples of loner Yes, Joel — the beloved hunky loner, who drove much of Season 1, and became a father-figure to Ellie (Bella Ramsey), who must now lead Season 2 — is gone. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025 Nova is a very smart girl and, like Buffy, a loner. Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025 Actually, everyone in the movie talks that way, but Brendan is still an outsider, a moody loner who cares more about cracking the case of his missing ex-girlfriend than fitting in at school. Ew Staff, EW.com, 3 Apr. 2025 Director David Ayer teams again with Statham after last year’s successful violent actioner, The Beekeeper, and the screenplay comes from him and none other than Sylvester Stallone, who no doubt likes the Rambo-ish loner-style resemblance to Cade. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for loner
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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
  • Immigration has surged, and the United States has entered an individualist, conservative epoch.
    Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
  • No other nation has more outstanding individualists.
    Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the settlers’ belief in the value of public goods and embrace of independent thinkers remain woven into the character of the city, which continues to attract artists, eccentrics and writers.
    Isabelle Taft, New York Times, 4 May 2025
  • Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.
    Josh Bell, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025

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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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