maverick
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Mr. Wainwright gives a vastly more serious, even grim, portrayal of the maverick Parisian detective, but he is granted humanity by his supporting cast, including my favorite, James Northcote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
For years the story of this maverick scientist was synonymous with ambitious British failure.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Brook also has one clear advantage in any debate for the maverick position in a fantasy England XI.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
He calls himself an independent Republican cut from the same polar-fleece lining as the state’s maverick GOP senator, Lisa Murkowski.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Not to mention that it's out and out creepy that Fifi, the maverick, is so changed.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Both were mavericks, and Graham 1.0 had an independent streak.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
LIV was a company full of bold thinkers and innovators and mavericks who weren’t afraid to leave predictable jobs to move to this opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Genge, who plays alongside Fiji stars Kalaveti Ravouvou and Viliame Mata at English club Bristol, added: "They are a team full of absolute mavericks and they have got lightning bolts everywhere."
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2025
He treated mavericks as icons — Meredith Monk and Lou Harrison among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2025
Anybody who finds it can brand it and claim it as his, though; in some places all the mavericks are bunched together and divided.
From The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X by Willard F. Baker
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