rugged individualist

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A good pair of jeans that fits well can make you look like a pop star or a rugged individualist.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

She’s a rugged individualist whose decisions are guided by a need for self-reliance and an excess of pride, clichés of the Western genre that have been around for as long as the genre has existed.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2021

People would have started to write and talk about what a stand-up guy J.C. is, a rugged individualist.

From Golf Digest • May 11, 2020

Freelancers are 2020’s rugged individualist frontiersmen, living off the fat of corporations, owing nobody anything.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2020

But the day of the rugged individualist was long departed; only the flabby individualist remained.

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert