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
The Oscar winner takes a cliched role of the disgraced loner and gives a low-key, effective performance, relying on glances not glares to get him over the finish line.
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
Was she excluded because a happy Alexei-Melina would undercut the film’s selling point involving a band of loners and rejects?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
In 1974, loners obsessed with guns was not yet a profile commonly understood to signal a potential school shooter.
—Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
The loners and pariahs in Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines (Pantheon, $28) insist on sinking.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Randy Myers, Mercury News, 25 June 2025
Was she excluded because a happy Alexei-Melina would undercut the film’s selling point involving a band of loners and rejects?
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 5 May 2025
In 1974, loners obsessed with guns was not yet a profile commonly understood to signal a potential school shooter.
—Sally Ventura
june 23, Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
The loners and pariahs in Submersed: Wonder, Obsession, and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines (Pantheon, $28) insist on sinking.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loner
Noun
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In 1972, American maverick Bobby Fischer first breached the frontier by winning the world championship at the height of the Cold War.—
Omkar Khandekar,
NPR,
5 Aug. 2025
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In the Wild West, mavericks, often rebellious individuals — played enormous roles.—
Jim Martin,
Denver Post,
3 Aug. 2025
Noun
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What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 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
Noun
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Ra’s decades-long adherence to this personal mythology, along with his air of serene bemusement and his extravagant robes and headdresses, led to his popular image as a colorful eccentric.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2025
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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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