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maverick

noun as in person who takes chances, departs from accepted course

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Most members of this maverick faction in the Conservative party were united by politics, not personal bonds.

Predominantly kits were kept to a single colour - two if you were feeling bold, three if you were feeling like a maverick.

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On his 21st birthday, in 1932, he came into a sizable inheritance that allowed him to live where he wanted and indulge his maverick aesthetic proclivities.

But Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, while not a liberal firebrand, is not your typical political maverick.

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Farrells, the architecture practice he founded, announced his death "with deep sadness", saying: "Terry was frequently called a maverick, radical and a non-conformist which he relished."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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