How to Use individualist in a Sentence

individualist

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  • The school encourages children to be individualists.
  • In spite of our pride in being rugged individualists, we can't be that right now.
    — Beth Thames | [email protected], al, 26 May 2020
  • Americans’ self-image is as a nation of rugged individualists who tamed the continent, dug the Panama Canal, and put a man on the moon.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • There is no place for the individualist who makes a variety of bets at his own discretion.
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • The real Paine was so much more compelling — a thin Quaker, an individualist with a big heart, who lived her life as far from a silly Texas stereotype as anyone could have.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Part of being a true individualist is fighting for the right of others to not conform to conventional ideas.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 8 July 2021
  • This is a picture of the parent Johnson wants to be—the opponent of pushiness and authority, the individualist.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2021
  • These groups shared a grand narrative of America, in which rugged individualists and virtuous families built the country with Bibles in one hand and guns in the other.
    — J.m. Opal, Quartz, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Most of us are more comfortable remembering a textbook America, the one of rugged individualists and lofty ideals.
    — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2018
  • In Beirut and other big cities, people are individualist.
    — Jenni Mash, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • The Sophocles tale not only comes out of the Western canon but its notion of the headstrong individualist who probes and questions and tempts fate is convenient shorthand for the would-be tradition-killers of Western modernity.
    — Geraldine Brooks, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2017
  • All those individualists mixed in with their nation’s pairs skaters and ice dancers, thrown together over three days of competition at the start of the Games, then sent back to their own disciplines to try their luck at an individual medal.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Think Marshall Miller, the base jumper, sky diver and wing-suit flyer whose death-defying antics make individualist renegades of just a generation ago seem quaint.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • The study found that almost everyone cares about preserving more lives than fewer, but that people in individualist cultures value this more.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
  • America needs stronger communities, and Hawley is right to tilt hard against a naked and self-seeking individualist streak among American elites.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The Robot represents science as a product of the individualist.
    — Kyle Munkittrick, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
  • Eventually, foppish men hawking ideas rather than wares would lay the same claim to the American individualist spirit: the adman as noble as the oilman, the programmer no different from the prospector.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
  • The variety allows for individualist takes on dressing, especially from the young stars in the audience.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 4 July 2017
  • An individualist understanding of time very quickly goes in the direction of meaningless to me.
    — David Marchese David Marchesephotograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 14 May 2023
  • But the authors also reported that denizens of the slopes scored lower for other traits, such as agreeableness and extraversion—in keeping with the stereotype of the laconic individualist that has often been portrayed in Westerns.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Books, films, paintings and other forms of individualist human expression are forbidden and Canada (once again) is the final destination on the road to freedom.
    — Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 18 May 2018
  • Of course, this being a polemic, there’s not much space given to how, exactly, the total disengagement with our individualist and capitalist society might be achieved.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Americans may be big enough to contain both frontier individualists and comfort-seeking layabouts.
    — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 19 May 2018
  • But in my experience, the biggest problem is that already-busy executives with full-time jobs have to play the rugged individualist—trying to solve really complex business problems while holding down the fort.
    — Randy Shattuck, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Is his idol the communitarian Edmund Burke or the individualist John Locke?
    — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • These are folks who see themselves as hardy, self-sufficient, small government individualists.
    — National Geographic, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Imaging the buff as a hip individualist, The Parallax View constructs the political world as outside his grasp, transmitting, in its limited notion of critique, a pessimism about social change.
    — Art Simon, Slate Magazine, 21 July 2017
  • In keeping with the times, popular literature of the 1920s showcased bold individualists.
    — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Sixteen rugged individualists brave the Alaskan wilderness in this new competition.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • On paper, what Batman represents isn’t all that great — Bruce Wayne is a privileged one-percenter, an individualist who happily bypasses government programs to work alone and decide what’s best and who’s bad or not.
    — Katie Walsh, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2017

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