How to Use maverick in a Sentence

maverick

1 of 2 noun
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  • That’s what makes the firm called Fundrise stand out as a maverick.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 July 2022
  • The city needs to look its maverick history, and be bold.
    — Heather Knight, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Aug. 2021
  • And Andrew is a bit more laissez-faire, and carefree, and a bit more of a maverick.
    — Sean Abrams, Men's Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • This is the sixth year that the coffee mavericks are offering the deal in store and online.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Sure, its careening course in the past month proved a boon for the maverick CEOs who've wagered on the digital coins.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • There is a character called the Mule, who’s kind of a maverick, who throws predictions off course.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Press reports called him a renegade and a maverick, and many in his profession shunned him.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Arizona loves a good maverick, and both Sinema and Kelly have wrapped themselves in that cape.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Nearly into his ninth decade in life, that’s one mission that the elder maverick shows no sign of changing.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In the Portugal match, the team’s thrilling attacker Mohammed Kudus would turn with the ball and surge up the field with a kind of maverick, Ronaldoesque cockiness.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2022
  • With maverick Uranus in your relationship angle and conjoining the Sun on the 9th, be ready to give others lots of space.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 May 2023
  • Fans of the coffee maverick's pistachio latte have a cool surprise on the winter menu.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Another of my colleagues, a true maverick, managed to come up with what the test told him was a quite-rare result of having no strong archetype matches at all.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2021
  • But faced with a tough re-election fight this fall, Kelly is increasingly acting like a maverick in the mold of Sinema.
    — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Expect the unexpected with maverick Uranus in the mix on the 23rd, and enjoy some companionable private time near the 27th.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 16 July 2023
  • Dale Katechis, for one, an investor in Veritas Fine Cannabis and a craft beer maverick.
    — Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • That’s Mary Harron, the wickedly gifted maverick who turns out-of-the-box biopic voyeurism into an artful obsession.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Mace later used her vote to cast herself as a maverick, fundraising aggressively off the move.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Rumors paint the bra as a push-up prototype, drawing on Hughes' knowhow as an aerospace maverick.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Following the formula of the classic western, a small town’s pair of maverick heroes stand up against an outlaw gang.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2022
  • There’s also the maverick path of Andre 3000, who may be hip-hop’s greatest feature killer but has never dropped a solo rap album.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2023
  • As lessons for all, a less giddy approach towards start-ups and their visionary maverick founders must be adopted.
    — Roomy Khan, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Today, she should be considered a feminist, a maverick, ahead of her time.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 17 May 2022
  • Enter Bob Parsons, a maverick billionaire who first took psychedelics three years ago.
    — CBS News, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The engaging entertainer and maverick in the music field was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1998.
    — Kathy Laskowski, sun-sentinel.com, 16 May 2021
  • Republicans hailed Manchin as a maverick, but Democrats and the White House were merciless in their criticism.
    — Lisa Mascaro and Farnoush Amiri, ajc, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Thomas is known as something of a conservative maverick – and his tenure has been partly defined by a readiness to stand alone.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
  • However, he is sometimes viewed as somewhat of a maverick.
    — Pan Pylas, Star Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • For the most part, Tesla’s investors, which include a large share of individual retail stockholders, have always considered Musk to be a maverick worth following, according to the company.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2024
  • Ably assisted by some friends — a maverick Scotland Yard detective and a female journalist determined to make a name for herself — Veronica and Stoker take death-defying risks in their quest to ensure the dead woman’s murderer is brought to justice.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
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maverick

2 of 2 adjective
  • George Sand's maverick views on marriage scandalized 19th-century French society.
  • Brooks has somewhat of a maverick edge to him and backed Ted Cruz in 2016.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • That used to be what set the Raiders apart, their maverick culture.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Why not the maverick wisecracking scoundrel who flew the fastest ship in the galaxy?
    — T.j. Furman, Philly.com, 21 May 2018
  • First, Kelly was forced to choose whether to side with his maverick home-state colleague or toe the party line.
    — John McCormack, National Review, 9 Feb. 2022
  • The Kingmakers The elephant in the room is the maverick Pirate Party.
    — Ragnhildur Siguroardottir, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017
  • So there’s the Texas maverick side, but also a part of us that will absolutely step up to take care of our own.
    — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2020
  • McCain’s maverick ways have pressed on in the era of President Trump.
    — Melissa Daniels, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2018
  • The would-be maverick Democrat is trying to sink the minimum wage hike.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2021
  • But McCain, trying to live up to his maverick image one more time, would not budge.
    — Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 28 July 2017
  • For all the talk about populism and his maverick appeal, the heart and soul of Trump's survival has been the power of partisanship.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 16 May 2017
  • McCain’s maverick ways have pressed on in the era of President Donald Trump.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2018
  • McCain's maverick ways have pressed on in the era of President Donald Trump.
    — Melissa Daniels, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • One thousand years would pass before the city received a visit from a team of explorers led by a maverick Scotsman in the 1700s.
    — Rubén Montoya, National Geographic, 30 July 2019
  • The company has worked on its maverick quantum project since 2004.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Here's a look at the best XI to work with the maverick manager and his esteemed assistant Peter Taylor.
    — SI.com, 29 July 2019
  • From Angela Carter to Steve Jobs, the black turtleneck came to represent maverick brilliance.
    — Nancy MacDonell, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • That concept that West is maverick putting forth new ideas is behind his thinking and his defense for his remarks on slavery on TMZ.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • All are one of a kind; all fuse a master jeweler’s craftsmanship with a maverick’s vision.
    — Stellene Volandes, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2018
  • But so is the simple story told by liberal critics of a bloodthirsty reactionary whose maverick pose is a pure fraud.
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The solution to that problem, some maverick winegrowers have suggested, is to plant grapevines made from non-vinifera species or — more likely — hybrids of vinifera and non-vinifera.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Danon's maverick ways pushed Netanyahu to fire him from his position as deputy defense minister in 2014.
    — Aron Heller, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
  • Into that void has stepped Atlas, who has relied on the maverick scientists to bolster his in-house arguments.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Mike Pompeo is the Madonna of the intelligence world, a maverick bold thinker who’s into Kabbalah.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 14 Mar. 2017
  • Just as the house founder rewrote the fashion rules, his successor intends to take an maverick approach to the system, one that will be independent of fashion schedules and seasons.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 26 May 2021
  • If progressives stand behind them and if two maverick senators remain on board, the bills could become law within weeks.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan (2014) is one of the great films to have debuted at Cannes this decade, so this family drama from the maverick Russian director is a must-see.
    — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
  • Though Babis was a finance minister in the outgoing government until May, many Czechs see him as a maverick outsider with the business acumen to shake up the system.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Today, a few maverick winemakers produce small amounts of mission from these legacy vines.
    — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Installing allies into key Cabinet posts left her open to the charge that her team was both inexperienced and maverick.
    — Rosa Prince, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022

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