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noun

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Recent Examples of maverick
Adjective
Even in New Hampshire, where maverick candidates in both parties have found success over the decades, longtime Republicans wondered whether there was a market for a Cheney candidacy within the G.O.P. Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022 This week’s visit will be scrutinized for clues about the trajectory of a more maverick Saudi foreign policy. Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
Noun
Fresh from his emotional and deeply personal Paris Couture Week show—one that brought some in the audience to tears—fashion maverick Gaurav Gupta has grand ambitions for his Vogue Wedding Atelier showcase. Sonakshi Sharma, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2025 De Luca has long embraced the role of the maverick. Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for maverick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maverick
Adjective
  • In one case, operatives posing as art dealers interested in purchasing a work by a dissident artist secretly installed surveillance equipment in his workplace and a GPS tracker on his car.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
  • He’d been allowed through the security checkpoint to attend a session given by a professor at the university, a Tunisian dissident and political exile, a specialist in the liberation movements of the Global South.
    David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • That meant the movie, which sees an unconventional band of antiheroes brought together to combat a supervillain, escaped a decision by China to curb Hollywood imports earlier this month as part of its retaliation against the United States.
    Casey Hall and Sophie Yu, USA Today, 1 May 2025
  • From backing unconventional shows like Stranger Things to challenging Hollywood’s release models, Netflix has cultivated a ‘risk position’ that runs through its culture, structure, leadership, and decision-making.
    London School of Economics, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Season eight’s unapologetic iconoclast, Acid Betty, returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Season 8’s unapologetic iconoclast Acid Betty returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Attracting talent for greater innovation hazards acquiring a few eccentrics whose gifts come wrapped in controversial packaging.
    Chip Bell, Forbes, 15 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • 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

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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 5 May. 2025.

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