nonconformist
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Founded in the 1830s, or maybe earlier, it’s been a private arts club, a home for nonconformist thinkers and drinkers since gaslights burned.
From Salon ● Jun. 23, 2026
Worse, in the context of today’s flyaway stock market, he is a principled, value-minded, dogmatic nonconformist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
But Tyler, ever the nonconformist, released his eighth studio album at 06:00 EST on Monday, three days after the week's chart tracking began.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2024
In Salar Abdoh’s Tehran, a city more populous than New York City, the vagaries of the human heart create a surprisingly unbridled and nonconformist tableau against a backdrop most Westerners view as monolithic, repressive, theocratic.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
There always existed King’s College, opulently nonconformist and clearly capable of absorbing him without any loss of his or its character.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
The artist and buyer were nonconformists, jabbing at, well, something.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026
At the same time, the conception of Poe the writer seems to tap into a cultural affection for outsiders, nonconformists and underdogs who ultimately prove their worth.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
And yet, being complicated nonconformists, they weren’t uniformly of the left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Mo Willems’s picture books often feature committed nonconformists — not the human kind, but the animal variety.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
They only served to develop the powers of Parliament and to bring the Episcopalians and nonconformists more closely together.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
Vocabulary lists containing nonconformist
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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