Synonyms for lone wolf
lone wolf

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1. loner, lone wolf, lone handnoun

   a person who avoids the company or assistance of others

   Synonyms:
   lone hand, loner

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1. • Individualist

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1. lone wolf

   Synonyms:
   Loner, see there
   

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1. Michael Steinbach:

   We've seen lots of places, online media, forums, social media, where there have been calls to conducting lone wolf attacks in your home country through a variety of means, not necessarily a sophisticated technique, but use what you have, use the tools you have and conduct an attack, they are using it successfully, I might add, to spot, assess, identify, target folks outside of war zones.

2. Angus King:

   It strikes me as ironic, at a time when risks are escalating, when we face kind of lone wolf terrorists here in the United States, that we are talking about unilaterally disarming, in effect, in terms of our intelligence capability.

3. The Heritage:

   There are an unknown number of self-radicalized militants in many different countries that may self-identify with ISIS and carry out ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks in its name, without necessarily being members of the group.

4. Stephen Harper:

   People say he was a lone wolf. It's true he was a single attacker, but it is not necessarily the case that it was only one guy.

5. Aaron Stein:

   What gives us pause about this attack is that while the others were haphazard and sloppy ... the size of this explosion suggests something more sophisticated, that would suggest organisation beyond a lone wolf cooking up something in their kitchen.