rugged individualist
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A good pair of jeans that fits well can make you look like a pop star or a rugged individualist.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021
She’s a rugged individualist whose decisions are guided by a need for self-reliance and an excess of pride, clichés of the Western genre that have been around for as long as the genre has existed.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2021
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
But the day of the rugged individualist was long departed; only the flabby individualist remained.
From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert