freethinker

Example Sentences

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For me, the Mets were a badge of crude contrarianism: Everyone else liked the Phillies, but I was a freethinker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Among Kanye West’s defenders, the thinking goes like this: He is a genius, a freethinker, an elevated conscience.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2022

This highly stylized love letter, addressing its recipient as “Consuelo,” was written in the style of the novel Consuelo by George Sand, the French writer, feminist, socialist, and freethinker.

From Slate • May 27, 2022

“He’s a freethinker and has a great sense of humor. Odessa lacks a community spirit in many ways and Chris is trying to change that.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 22, 2020

Vincenzio was something of a freethinker, by the standards of the day, and had no great love of the forms and rituals of the Church.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin