as in maverick
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
that guy in tech support is a loner, and never wants to hang out with the rest of us
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Recent Examples of loner
The plot centers on Nico, a 15-year-old loner bullied at school due to his parents’ funeral business.
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 May 2025
Louis-Dreyfus’ villainous character has positioned a number of MCU loners and rejects to kill each other for her own nefarious reasons.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
He’s been IDed as Blake Kersten, a loner who was estranged from his family after his parents kicked him out at 17 for being gay.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
What resulted is an unlikely team-up of MCU loners and rejects — including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
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Jamie Lang, Variety, 17 May 2025
Louis-Dreyfus’ villainous character has positioned a number of MCU loners and rejects to kill each other for her own nefarious reasons.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 29 Apr. 2025
He’s been IDed as Blake Kersten, a loner who was estranged from his family after his parents kicked him out at 17 for being gay.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
What resulted is an unlikely team-up of MCU loners and rejects — including Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh), Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), Red Guardian (David Harbour), John Walker (Wyatt Russell), Ghost (Hannah John-Kamen) and Taskmaster (Olga Kurylenko).
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for loner
Noun
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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.—
Seth Lederman,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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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.—
David Ornstein,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
Noun
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Immigration has surged, and the United States has entered an individualist, conservative epoch.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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No other nation has more outstanding individualists.—
Philipp Lahm,
The Athletic,
24 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To take her mind off him, Agathe meets an Austen-like family of eccentrics running the retreat and the sometimes pretentious writers attending it.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
22 May 2025
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But the settlers’ belief in the value of public goods and embrace of independent thinkers remain woven into the character of the city, which continues to attract artists, eccentrics and writers.—
Isabelle Taft,
New York Times,
4 May 2025
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“Loner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/loner. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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