nonconformist
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For Valerie, the price is bouncing between cheap community houses and sleeping on the street, where the bleak conditions further mold Valerie’s nonconformist personality.
From Salon • Apr. 29, 2026
Elon Musk has made a career, and billions of dollars, out of being a nonconformist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026
It’s difficult to imagine a worse addition to this oil-and-water mix of high-minded nonconformist cranks and hard-toiling middle-class settlers than a capitalist sybarite.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
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
Major Major’s elders disliked him because he was such a flagrant nonconformist Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing nonconformist
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "N"
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