lone wolf
nounDefinition of lone wolf
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Synonyms
bohemian, boho, counterculturist, deviant, enfant terrible, free spirit, heretic, iconoclast, individualist, lone ranger, loner, maverick, nonconformer, nonconformist
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Well before the present glut of studios with acronymic titles, H&dM garnered international attention in the 1990s as a relative rarity in a profession then dominated by big-name lone wolves. — Ian Volner, WSJ, "Swiss Architecture Firm Herzog & De Meuron Celebrates 40 Years," 4 Nov. 2018 Being a lone wolf or lone rat makes these shooters extremely hard to detect. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, "Can we make Walmarts and other public spaces safer? Mass shootings show vulnerable ‘soft targets’," 6 Aug. 2019 But on closer examination, the attacks served to illustrate how America’s lone wolf shooters aren’t really alone. — Marc Fisher, Anchorage Daily News, "Weekend of mass killing reflects how American violence goes viral," 5 Aug. 2019 That was reality on Monday for Don Miles, who was walking to the Commerce Street entrance of the Earle Cabell Federal Building when Dallas' latest lone wolf assault happened. — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, "Dallas’ ‘lone wolf’ shooting shows how we’re always in danger, even with improved security," 22 June 2019 To be irredeemable is surely to be special, a lone wolf. — Lidija Haas, The New Republic, "Notes on Cancel Culture," 1 July 2019 Monday's attack on the courthouse was the perfect example of the most difficult threat to detect: the self-radicalized lone wolf. — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, "Dallas’ ‘lone wolf’ shooting shows how we’re always in danger, even with improved security," 22 June 2019 Dave Cole serves up dangerous Judd Nelson-Johnny Depp-Christian Slater realness as J.D., the lone wolf tricking Veronica into taking down Alpha Heather Chandler and then bumping off more obnoxious classmates in the ultimate anti-bullying campaign. — Lee Williams | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive.com, "‘Heathers: The Musical’ puts Generation X nostalgia front and center," 24 June 2019 An extensive online library contains a trove of manuals with instructions on lone wolf terror-tactics, gunsmithing, data mining, interrogation tactics, counter-surveillance techniques, bomb making, chemical weapons creation, and guerilla warfare. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "22 predictions for social media in 2019," 15 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lone wolf.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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