rugged individualist
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
