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noun

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Adjective
As the label carved out a space for pop’s true maverick weirdos, Harle became notable for his classically pristine pop production, evident on collaborations with Charli XCX and Carly Rae Jepsen. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2022 But even more remarkable is the fact that he's done all this without losing his maverick status. Katie Rife, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
Noun
Years later, in an interview for AOL, Stonestreet said that he was called in to read for the part of Lester Bangs — the maverick music writer who is a mentor to lead character William Miller — who was eventually played by Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman. Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025 But after Donald Trump won a second term as US president in November, Starmer swapped what was considered a steady set of hands for a political heavyweight – a maverick able to maneuver in Trump’s Washington. Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for maverick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maverick
Adjective
  • Human rights in Russia will suffer if the surveillance of dissident activity ramps up, and those seeking alternative means of communicating will stand out even more as regime-threatening anomalies.
    Justin Sherman, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Tucker Carlson, the one-time cable news king now moonlighting as a dissident podcaster, has evinced an unhealthy obsession with the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The story behind this winning idea is a bit unconventional compared to other product rollouts.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
  • That same headbanging energy has defined her steady, albeit unconventional, political rise.
    Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To be in the presence of this iconoclast was quite something.
    Ellie Goulding, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
  • But this documentary shows us Novak as the fiercely independent iconoclast who left Hollywood on her own terms.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • For Mimi Pond, the desire to do a book about the Mitford sisters – six larger-than-life British eccentrics (and one brother) who created a stir in both British and American culture – was obvious.
    Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The petite hamlet is truly one of a kind: Originally intended as a resort destination in the late 19th century, Eureka Springs later became a home for hippies and nonconformists seeking rural refuge in the 1970s.
    Nico Lang, Them., 21 Apr. 2025
  • German immigrants founded and built the club, and in later decades Nature Friends became a hub for numerous groups: some esoteric, some nonconformist and others looking for a rustic place to chill.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the midst of the life-or-death chaos, Arisu grows closer to Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), an athletic loner mourning the death of her mountain climber father.
    Kayti Burt, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Kimberly Weinberger stars as Connie, a cautious, mildly depressive woman in a dead-end relationship with an older man, and Alex Chernow plays Tristan, a fiery, almost childlike loner with secrets.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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