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
On that lesson alone, every company should have taken a nonconformist to lunch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 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
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
“In the end that sacred project actually tends to produce sectarian narrowness, exclusion, uniformity, silencing, self-censorship, lack of debate, the negative sanctioning of nonconformists, and the debilitation of rigorous thought.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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
The writer of this diary did not belong to those nonconformists who arranged themselves in hostility to the established religion and political government of our country.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
Vocabulary lists containing nonconformist
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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