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Six example sentences with maverick, each labelled with its topic.
The fund backed a maverick who refused every board seat and ran the company from a workshop in Maine.
Startups
The coach was a maverick, benching his stars for a quarter to prove that his reserves could hold a lead.
Basketball
Every studio turned him down, so the maverick shot the picture on weekends with a borrowed camera and forty friends.
Movies
The maverick geologist insisted the continents drifted, and colleagues laughed at him for decades before the seafloor data arrived.
Science
A maverick on the council, she voted against her own party's budget and explained why in a letter to every household.
Politics
The maverick economist argued that the standard model ignored banks entirely, and few journals would publish her until the crash.
Economics
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- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
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- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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