contrarian
Example Sentences
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Growing up, I was one of those reflexively contrarian teenagers who hated anything popular and found value in almost anything obscure, independent or weird.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
We were searching for a way out, and we were searching for something to do, and John was very, very brilliant and was very much a contrarian, and he didn’t think like other people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
I base this upbeat conclusion on a contrarian analysis of how short-term market timers reacted to the stock market’s summer weakness.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Before it really heated up, Brust and Wray decided to make another contrarian investment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
