"lone gunman" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the Warren Commission's lone gunman theory, that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was the work of a single individual, subsequently applied to numerous other political assassinations and shootings.",
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          "ref": "2002, Jed Mercurio, Bodies, →ISBN, page 340:",
          "text": "He continues, \"So when someone blows the whistle, the hospital has to start looking for a scapegoat. The hospital looks for the lone gunman—the individual, acting alone, acting counter to his training, who, through a gross act of incompetence . . . .\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, John Grisham, The Appeal, →ISBN, pages 197–198:",
          "text": "Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch. . . . Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Lee Raffel, I Hate Conflict! Seven Steps to Resolving Differences with Anyone in Your Life, →ISBN, page 260:",
          "text": "The Wilson family had been sorely conflicted because each member had gone off in his or her own direction, thinking that they were all lone gunmen.",
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        "An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous."
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        "(idiomatic) An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "march to the beat of a different drum"
        },
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        {
          "word": "maverick"
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        {
          "word": "rogue"
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{
  "etymology_text": "From the Warren Commission's lone gunman theory, that the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy was the work of a single individual, subsequently applied to numerous other political assassinations and shootings.",
  "forms": [
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    {
      "word": "march to the beat of a different drum"
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          "text": "Trial lawyers, always a colorful and eclectic bunch. . . . Most were lone gunmen too eccentric to keep much of a staff.",
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          "ref": "2008, Lee Raffel, I Hate Conflict! Seven Steps to Resolving Differences with Anyone in Your Life, →ISBN, page 260:",
          "text": "The Wilson family had been sorely conflicted because each member had gone off in his or her own direction, thinking that they were all lone gunmen.",
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        "An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous."
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        "(idiomatic) An individual person who acts on his or her own initiative, without partners, especially one who has sole responsibility for doing something questionable, confidential, or iniquitous."
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "maverick"
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    {
      "word": "rogue"
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  "word": "lone gunman"
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