as in maverick
a person who is different from other people and who does not seem to belong in a particular group or situation
a comic book about a social misfit who discovers his superpower
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Recent Examples of misfit
Luckily, things click into place when Ne Zha begins his trials, and the tension between using Ao Bing’s greater power to win and remaining true to his own misfit self begins to wear at him.
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
The Seiwalds started Summit Hard Cider in 2012 and moved to its current location in 2016, according to the website for Scrumpy’s, which is named after a term for cider made from misfit and unwanted apples.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Instead, they are pressured into becoming guests of the castle's owner, a transvestite mad scientist called Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), and his merry bad of misfits.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025
The 1985 blockbuster about a group of suburban Chicago high school misfits who are forced to spend detention together is being rereleased by Universal Pictures.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
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Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
The Seiwalds started Summit Hard Cider in 2012 and moved to its current location in 2016, according to the website for Scrumpy’s, which is named after a term for cider made from misfit and unwanted apples.
—Max Scheinblum, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
Instead, they are pressured into becoming guests of the castle's owner, a transvestite mad scientist called Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), and his merry bad of misfits.
—ArsTechnica, 16 Aug. 2025
The 1985 blockbuster about a group of suburban Chicago high school misfits who are forced to spend detention together is being rereleased by Universal Pictures.
—Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misfit
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Figgis interviews Coppola several times, also speaking with key cast members (especially LaBeouf and a cheeky Aubrey Plaza), as well as a few long-time collaborators like George Lucas, who doesn’t expect anything less from his old friend and fellow Hollywood maverick.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Aug. 2025
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Thinkers, surveyors, and religious mavericks, the House of Pynchon had settled into middle-class respectability by the time this Thomas Ruggles Pynchon was born.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Aug. 2025
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This outsider spirit still powers the Great North Run, which is now preparing for its 44th staging on Sunday.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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What started as a protest against outsiders controlling the town turned into a decades-long tradition that still lives on today.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Sep. 2025
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Man, just what a freak, freak deal.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Sep. 2025
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Cue the mayhem, as the boys dash through the snow in a stranger’s car, run around London and freak out as a pack of wolves surround them in the woods.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
5 Sep. 2025
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And Armstrong Archives documented machine learning improving extraction accuracy through anomaly detection.—
Douglas B. Laney,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Even with a relatively small sample size, the anomaly stuck out like a giant, red, throbbing sore thumb — a favorite gag in animation.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2025
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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
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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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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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“Misfit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misfit. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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