as in bohemians
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
there's always one maverick who has to go his own way
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Recent Examples of mavericks
Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.
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Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The unscripted industry was born from creative mavericks who challenged conventions and redefined what television could be.
—Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Scientific progress often comes from mavericks who take great risks to champion alternative views.
—Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
The unscripted industry was born from creative mavericks who challenged conventions and redefined what television could be.
—Peter White, Deadline, 19 Dec. 2024
Scientific progress often comes from mavericks who take great risks to champion alternative views.
—Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mavericks
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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
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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
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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
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“Mavericks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mavericks. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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