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  • He was the eternal renegade, refusing to make feel-good movies or boys'-life adventures or simple melodramas — simple anything. For more than 35 years, Robert Altman, who died Monday night in Los Angeles at 81, was the truth-telling leper outside the film-industry cathedral, and the most cunning chiseler at the staid monument.  (source)
  • The platoon of renegade soldiers cheered.  (source)
    renegade = rebel (people rebelling against an established government)
  • Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago, nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with Big Brother himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death, and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.  (source)
    renegade = traitor
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  • Thus began his reputation for being a renegade, and a bit of a fool.†  (source)
  • we been told we can bring in renegades like you alive or dead.  (source)
    renegades = traitors, rebels or outlaws
  • This is the chastisement of a renegade and no more.†  (source)
  • They were renegades who thought they had permission to steal from the rich and give to the poor.†  (source)
  • A bunch of renegade Trial takers who managed to escape their deaths?†  (source)
  • Blending in with the fighting, drinking, cussing renegades of the marsh was the easiest thing Jake ever did.†  (source)
  • Would he have his face filed down and replaced by a pretty mask, his brain turned into whatever mush the authorities decided would be acceptable for a former renegade raised in the wild?†  (source)
  • They were bandits, thieves, and renegades.†  (source)
  • Despite warnings, even threats, from the Council, in the summer of 1908 my brothers and several hundred members of this renegade faction—a number of powerful ymbrynes among them, traitors every one—ventured into the Siberian tundra to conduct their hateful experiment.†  (source)
  • He was dressed in running shoes, dark cargo pants, and a Vancouver Winter Olympics T-shirt with his Roman centurion badge pinned to the neck (which seemed either sad or hopeful to Percy, now that they were renegades).†  (source)
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