rugged individualist

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He described them as “the typical rugged individualist, not wanting to be told what to do.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2020

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

The periodic depressions and market crashes that bankrupted countless family farms proved over and over again that the fate of even the most rugged individualist could not be detached from the larger world.

From Slate • Dec. 7, 2017

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

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert