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Noun
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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
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Others referred to The Airbender as a screwball when Williams first started chucking it.—
Gary Phillips,
New York Daily News,
13 June 2025
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For this project, the director leaned more sincere than screwball, focusing on a familiar subject.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
20 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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Ra’s decades-long adherence to this personal mythology, along with his air of serene bemusement and his extravagant robes and headdresses, led to his popular image as a colorful eccentric.—
Ekow Eshun
July 11,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Other characters include outcasts, visionaries and eccentrics — all of whom live on the margins as unseen — a former priest, a girl trapped in working her family’s candy stand, a woman who learned preaching from her brother and is a caretaker for her dying housemate.—
Mary Ann Grossmann,
Twin Cities,
18 May 2025
Noun
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The 600-acre pond is surrounded by private property and is home to loons, smallmouth bass and other aquatic life.—
Faith Karimi,
CNN Money,
17 July 2025
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Together, Jamie and Isla bring the baby to Kelson, who turns out to be welcoming and accommodating, despite his reputation as a loon.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
23 June 2025
Noun
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Aster is no longer offering a twist on things that really took place but on fantasies that occurred only in the imaginations of right-wing kooks.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
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This is not a game; until the kooks and zealots rampaging over the public health infrastructure are constrained, many people could die.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Indeed, exercise is for everyone, from toddlers to codgers.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
23 May 2025
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For older codgers like me who prefer golf clubs to nightclubs, a serene and charming alternative is the city of La Quinta, best known for its incomparable golf courses at PGA West and the historic La Quinta Resort & Club, another redolent whiff of Hollywood’s glorious days gone by.—
David Weiss,
Forbes.com,
8 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Dawn rambles on, issuing crackpot theories in the background.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Arson, which blends conspiracy, conflagration, and the surrender of control, has a unique tendency to elicit crackpot theories.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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“Quixote.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quixote. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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