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- George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society
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- there's always one maverick who has to go his own way
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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 5 Oct. 2022.
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