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- noun idiomatic An individual person who acts on his or her own
initiative , withoutpartners , especially one who hassole responsibility for doing somethingquestionable ,confidential , oriniquitous .
Etymologies
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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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