nonconformer

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Noun
  • Ballard is a maverick who’s been demoted to assembling a volunteer team, literally in the basement, to review cold case files.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 6 July 2025
  • Car chases were as reliable a trope as the maverick officer with his own moral code mouthing off to superiors, or the battle-scarred veteran who’s seen it all and just wants to eat donuts and make it to retirement.
    Maris Kreizman, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The spectacular failure of aspiring enfant terrible David Hogg this week in the first test of his youth movement in an Arizona House primary would seem to point in the same direction, but look closer.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 18 July 2025
  • Miley Cyrus, Mayor Pauline Miley’s transition from enfant terrible to one of the industry’s most creative staples suggests a kind of mid-career stability present in damsel in distress turned politician Pauline. Katy Perry, Daisy Obviously!!!
    Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 6 June 2025
Noun
  • Like so many Weimar-era free spirits, Astfalck-Vietz saw her career abruptly hobbled by the political ascent of Adolf Hitler, which began in 1933.
    Andrew Pulver, Air Mail, 12 July 2025
  • Marion, who wears his trademark cowboy hat, is big on energy and being a free spirit.
    Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 June 2025
Noun
  • As Kissinger understood, even lone rangers need friends.
    MARGARET MACMILLAN, Foreign Affairs, 21 July 2025
  • And while his rivals have landed serious blows against him, he’s embraced the tabloid-style frenzy at each of those junctures, incorporating them into his narrative identity as an underappreciated lone ranger constantly battling the world.
    TIME, TIME, 7 May 2024
Noun
  • But conflicts overseas and incidents sparked by domestic extremists, along with a threat assessment from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies warning about lone wolf attacks, have raised the threat level.
    Mark Morales, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
  • And, of course, now there's concerns that extremists, infuriated by the U.S. attack on a Muslim country, might launch lone wolf attacks on their own.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 June 2025
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“Nonconformer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonconformer. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.

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