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nonconformist

[non-kuhn-fawr-mist] / ˌnɒn kənˈfɔr mɪst /




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Founded in the 1830s, or maybe earlier, it’s been a private arts club, a home for nonconformist thinkers and drinkers since gaslights burned.

From Salon Jun. 23, 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

There always existed King’s College, opulently nonconformist and clearly capable of absorbing him without any loss of his or its character.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Mr. Neufeld didn’t address his comments to individuals or urge discrimination against “gender” nonconformists in the workplace or classroom.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 23, 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

Nowhere will the nonconformists and dissenters find more of truth—and in some particulars of new truth—in relation to their own principles and duties, than in these volumes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various




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