rugged individualist
Example Sentences
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He described them as “the typical rugged individualist, not wanting to be told what to do.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
People would have started to write and talk about what a stand-up guy J.C. is, a rugged individualist.
From Golf Digest ● May 11, 2020
Freelancers are 2020’s rugged individualist frontiersmen, living off the fat of corporations, owing nobody anything.
From The Verge ● Feb. 26, 2020
The periodic depressions and market crashes that bankrupted countless family farms proved over and over again that the fate of even the most rugged individualist could not be detached from the larger world.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2017
It belongs to Cleveland Amory, an affable and rugged individualist who has been a celebrated writer for more than half of his 61 years.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max
