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. Jytte Klausen:

   The true lone wolf is usually psychotic, and very few jihadists are truly psychotic.

3. Richard Cohen:

   Unfortunately there are thousands of young men like (Roof) who are looking for an identity larger than themselves, we've seen a drifting away from organized white supremacy and the prevalence of lone wolf attacks.

4. Daniel Jones:

   The FBI appears to be taking these threats seriously, but disciplined lone wolf actors, regardless of ideology, are extremely difficult to track.

5. 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.