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noun

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Recent Examples of maverick
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
For example, a university may be experiencing maverick spending, also known as rogue spending, because individual departments are making purchases independently. M. Todd Abner, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025 Typically, when a maverick philanthropist sets out to build a museum, the primary purpose is to house their private collection. Julie Belcove, Robb Report, 27 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for maverick
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maverick
Adjective
  • Michel was accused of helping Low run foreign-influence campaigns against the U.S., such as funneling money from Low to Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, as well as lobbying Donald Trump’s administration to drop an investigation into Low and extradite the dissident Chinese billionaire.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The film follows a reclusive mortician who faces an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Hiring him would be the most conventional aspect of a very unconventional media strategy.
    Max Tani, semafor.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With an unconventional research approach, a new screenwriter and an unestablished director, so much of the film was a leap of faith.
    Paul Fitzgerald, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But this documentary shows us Novak as the fiercely independent iconoclast who left Hollywood on her own terms.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Even the possibility of Stern going away is a signal of how things have changed for the iconoclast.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 13 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Both towns are filled with lovable eccentrics, both treat community as a kind of moral center, and both ask us to consider what decency looks like at the local level.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 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
  • Hank, in attempting to save himself, starts to act out a stereotype of his own, the Western loner who presumes to take on a hero’s mantle.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Until the events of Peacemaker season one, this guy was kind of a loner and kind of a loser.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 2025

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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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