nonconformist
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Worse, in the context of today’s flyaway stock market, he is a principled, value-minded, dogmatic nonconformist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
I’m refreshed by how nonconformist the format of the record is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
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
A strong socialist bent in politics, nonconformist in religion, working class.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
I couldn’t imagine a less hospitable place for a nineteen-year-old nonconformist.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
In the spirit of its guiding light, the iconoclastic singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, the bar has played host to other country nonconformists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
His solution was also borrowed from Toynbee: the notion of the “creative minority” — small groups of nonconformists with the capacity to reinvigorate an entire culture.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
And yet, being complicated nonconformists, they weren’t uniformly of the left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
Our three corps d'armée, I may almost say, have been Scotch presbyterians, English and Welsh nonconformists, and Irish Roman catholics.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Vocabulary lists containing nonconformist
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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