as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing
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Recent Examples of individualist
No other nation has more outstanding individualists.
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Philipp Lahm, The Athletic, 24 Mar. 2025
Actual Ad The ad Cambridge sent to individualists depicts rows of U.S. flags in a field, an image widely associated with military sacrifice and remembrances of war.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2025
The folly of swapping him out for Ibrahimovic, football’s most brash individualist outside of Cristiano Ronaldo, was exposed in less than a year.
—Liam Twomey, The Athletic, 6 Feb. 2025
Potential voters were assigned one of five personality groups: risk-takers, carers, go-getters, individualists and supporters.
—Corey G. Johnson, ProPublica, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualist
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Your Ability To Work Within A Structured System Franchising isn’t necessarily for the maverick who is looking to reinvent themselves and their passion.—
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Think of Ait-Nouri as a Joao Cancelo type full-back; a maverick in possession, inventive, good in tight spaces, and able to play in the pockets or out wide in a flexible Pep Guardiola team.—
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Chicago will be the only U.S. city to see the 92-year-old iconoclast Yoko Ono's new show.—
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Season eight’s unapologetic iconoclast, Acid Betty, returns to the competition to kick ass and take names.—
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Could an irredeemable loner doomed to a life peering from the outside in do this?—
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Both are loners who’d rather avoid the spotlight — particularly at parties.—
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“Individualist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualist. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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