eight ball

noun

Definition of eight ballnext
as in free spirit

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  1. free spirit
  2. lone ranger
  3. lone wolf
  4. outsider
  5. enfant terrible
  6. misfit
  7. individualist
  8. maverick
Noun
  • Utsav was a free spirit who hadn’t worked a traditional job in three years.
    Shobha Dasari, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2025
  • And a little bit of my free spirit is gone for sure.
    Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of free spirit
Noun
  • 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
  • Look, first of all, Netanyahu is not a lone ranger.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024
Definition of lone ranger
Noun
  • Like this lone wolf animal out there, this coyote just running around the field and Tommy’s looking at him with a kinship, but then he is killed right before his eyes.
    Lynette Rice, Deadline, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Some of these things run deeper in terms of the lone wolf element.
    CBS News, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of lone wolf
Noun
  • Both saw themselves as outsiders in a hostile environment.
    Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Hilma af Klimt Foundation Lundgren acknowledges the inherent skepticism such an approach by an outsider might engender among the art community and is sympathetic, given that physics and astronomy both have their share of cranks.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2025
Definition of outsider
Noun
  • For over a decade, Grimes delighted the public with hilariously dilettante and enfant terrible press bits.
    Alexandra Bregman, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024
  • Well, my editor, Judith Regan, was the enfant terrible of publishing in the ‘90s.
    Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of enfant terrible
Noun
  • The ragtag group of Marvel misfits — which includes Stan's Bucky, Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, and David Harbour's Red Guardian — must team up and find a way to work together before an unknown entity successfully wipes them all out.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Many people in Utah had turned to wilderness survival after a personal crisis, forming a community of misfits who thrived in environments harsh and remote.
    Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of misfit
Noun
  • As higher education developed along the lines established by wealthy philanthropists and free-market economic priorities, the enterprise came to be seen as an individualist affair rather than a cooperative one.
    Ryann Liebenthal, Harper's Magazine, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Radical individualists come to environmentalism from a different place than other people who support the cause.
    Keren Landman, Vox, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of individualist
Noun
  • The odds were stacked against Britain until a group of renegade, maverick soldiers (the SAS Rogue Heroes) decided to fight against a more powerful enemy in a new way.
    Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Trump backing TikTok is something of a maverick position in Washington.
    Bobby Allyn, NPR, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of maverick
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