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
Garcia, who plays cartel boss Gallino in the second season of the Paramount+ show, praised Sheridan as one of Hollywood's true mavericks.
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Lauryn Overhultz , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
Most of our mavericks who fly that close to the sun never get to see that journey through.
—Ahmir “questlove” Thompson, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Still, his detective instincts are ultimately reawakened, and his new department becomes a magnet for a crew of misfits and mavericks.
—Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Jazz is an art form with an outsized share of mavericks, rebels, and creative dissidents who’ve built careers by blazing their own particular paths.
—Andrew Gilbert, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
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, 5 Aug. 2025
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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The women in her stories feel profound, distinct uncertainty toward convention—less as iconoclasts than fierce individuals.—
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The show’s hosts, Charlotte Shane and Jo Livingstone, are two of our coolest literary iconoclasts.—
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The logger and railsplitter occasionally encounters American eccentrics, like a chatty drifter prone to sporting bible verses and an old coot of a demolitions expert with a philosophical bent.—
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Appealing to consumers searching for a piece of history, the store has gained a following of visitors hunting for unique souvenirs, designers on inspiration trips and local eccentrics.—
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New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.—
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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.—
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“Mavericks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mavericks. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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