as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices
George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society
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as in bohemian
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 maverick
Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
This week’s visit will be scrutinized for clues about the trajectory of a more maverick Saudi foreign policy.
—Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
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
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Adjective
Even in New Hampshire, where maverick candidates in both parties have found success over the decades, longtime Republicans wondered whether there was a market for a Cheney candidacy within the G.O.P.
—Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
This week’s visit will be scrutinized for clues about the trajectory of a more maverick Saudi foreign policy.
—Stephen Kalin, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
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
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Ferrer, the leader of the dissident organization Unión Patriótica de Cuba, was one of the most prominent political prisoners the Cuban government had been holding as bargaining chips.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Sacred Fig offers Academy voters the rare chance to pick a film from a dissident director.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2025
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To further enhance its defenses, potential Russian targets have adopted several unconventional air-defense techniques, including the installation of large nets around critical infrastructure to ensnare incoming drones.—
Vikram Mittal,
Forbes,
24 Jan. 2025
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Jack De Mave, who portrayed a U.S. forest ranger on Lassie and an unconventional date for Valerie Harper’s Rhoda Morgenstern on the second episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has died.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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The late 13th century paintings were whitewashed following a mid-15th-century fire at the cathedral and subsequently boxed behind woodwork by 1786, which protected them from iconoclasts and vandalization during the French Revolution.—
Francesca Aton for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
4 Jan. 2025
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And when iconoclasts do emerge, in the literal form of Rhodes scholars demanding that a statue of the man whose munificence and foresight funded their ticket into the global elite be taken down?—
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1 June 2024
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My dedication, to help the waifs and strays and eccentrics of the music world together, continues to this day.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
11 Oct. 2024
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Robert Redford delivers folksy wisdom as a local eccentric who once had his own dragon encounter, and even Karl Urban’s greedy logger is more of a nuisance than an outright villain.—
Josh Bell,
Vulture,
20 Dec. 2024
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This strain of individualism has remained strong in U.S. politics: Individual liberty, personal responsibility and economic opportunity are the foundations of American life, individualists say, so each person should win or lose on their own.—
Jay Feinman,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2025
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Fighting is a brutal and individualist sport, and orienting your life around violence can lend itself to seeing the world in harsh absolutes.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
14 Jan. 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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Invariably, memorials devoted to these two nonconformists emphasized their complicated personalities.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 July 2024
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All of the victims have been loners with no friends or family ties.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
12 Jan. 2025
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Today, one of the primary worries are loners whose rantings online are fed by others who are like-minded.—
Adam Geller,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Maverick.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maverick. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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