as in maverick
a person who is different from other people and who does not seem to belong in a particular group or situation
a comic book about a social misfit who discovers his superpower
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Recent Examples of misfit
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.
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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
The Covid lockdown may have played a role in this, but there’s something newly romantic and alluring about being enveloped in a community of fellow misfits — and in person, decades removed from Zoom group chats.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
The island of misfit toys was, however, the cause of some controversy when the special aired.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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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
The Covid lockdown may have played a role in this, but there’s something newly romantic and alluring about being enveloped in a community of fellow misfits — and in person, decades removed from Zoom group chats.
—David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2024
The island of misfit toys was, however, the cause of some controversy when the special aired.
—Victoria Edel, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misfit
Noun
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Trump backing TikTok is something of a maverick position in Washington.—
Bobby Allyn,
NPR,
10 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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Both saw themselves as outsiders in a hostile environment.—
Ruth Margalit,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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As federal troops were dispatched to the region, the Latter-day Saints, fearing war, became increasingly distrustful of outsiders.—
Monica Mercuri,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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What prompted the freak-out was Netflix’s warning that growth in the first part of 2022 would be slowing down — way down, as in nearly half of the 2021 Q1 growth.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2022
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The latest episode of the Fox first responder series saw a freak storm system wreak havoc at a carnival, particularly for a newly single dad, Trevor (Lucifer's D.B. Woodside), who had to be rescued by the 126 twice in one day.—
Patrick Gomez,
EW.com,
25 Jan. 2023
Noun
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In an interview with ABC News earlier on Monday, Southern California Edison's parent company CEO Pedro Pizarro said employees monitoring the lines remotely at the time saw no indications of any electrical anomalies that would typically cause sparking.—
Liz Baker,
NPR,
14 Jan. 2025
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Preliminary information indicates Edison equipment experienced an electrical anomaly one minute after the Hurst Fire reportedly started, according to the company.—
Spencer Kimball,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2025
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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
Noun
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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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“Misfit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misfit. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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