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But for all the barriers he’s broken and all the miles he’s logged in his career as a Navy test pilot, Maverick occupies a state of self-willed professional stasis.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

Some were interested in what change these self-willed wolves might wreak upon their old haunts.

From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2020

Maybe that matters less than the fact that Ms. Fox sees her whole life as playing out under the terms of a self-willed destiny.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2019

He did not consider “Peanuts” a children’s comic; even in Snoopy, his most kid-friendly character, Schulz created a self-willed, occasionally anxious fantasist.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 6, 2019

Behind us, a group of women was carrying on a conversation, criticizing a neighbor’s wife who, upon leaving Haiti, had turned from a sweet Haitian wife into a self-willed tyrant.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat