as in bohemians
a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs
an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing
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Recent Examples of individualists
New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
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.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
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.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualists
Noun
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The confluence at Black Mountain of émigré artists like Josef and Anni Albers with homegrown mavericks like John Cage and Buckminster Fuller (who constructed his first geodesic dome there) marked an early flowering of this mode of learning, which was still in fine health decades later.—
Christopher Benfey,
The New York Review of Books,
19 Apr. 2026
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Garcia, who plays cartel boss Gallino in the second season of the Paramount+ show, praised Sheridan as one of Hollywood's true mavericks.—
Lauryn Overhultz , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The consequences of it are the loners who go off and do mass shootings.—
Mac Engel
April 20,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
20 Apr. 2026
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Several characters, including a group of popular girls who finally invite the boys — admitted loners — to a party, look directly into the camera.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Individualists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/individualists. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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