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Recent Examples of nonsocial
Their active periods included social and nonsocial behaviors such as fighting or grooming themselves or one another.
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Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
These findings show that incidental olfactory suspicion cues can affect performance on social as well as nonsocial reasoning tasks.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2015
Alcohol placebos affect social behaviors but not nonsocial ones, and have not previously been shown to affect memory.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
But farming in nonsocial insects, like the loner lizard beetles, is more mysterious.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013
The surveys assessed the personality of the animals in five categories: Fearfulness, including fear of people, nonsocial fear, fear of dogs, fear of handling.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2022
The up or down arrows were a nonsocial, abstract cue.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
And now even a nonsocial network, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google and the elephant in the digital room, is looking to get in the game.
—Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2016
Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
These findings show that incidental olfactory suspicion cues can affect performance on social as well as nonsocial reasoning tasks.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2015
Alcohol placebos affect social behaviors but not nonsocial ones, and have not previously been shown to affect memory.
—Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011
But farming in nonsocial insects, like the loner lizard beetles, is more mysterious.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2013
The surveys assessed the personality of the animals in five categories: Fearfulness, including fear of people, nonsocial fear, fear of dogs, fear of handling.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2022
The up or down arrows were a nonsocial, abstract cue.
—Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 Jan. 2018
And now even a nonsocial network, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google and the elephant in the digital room, is looking to get in the game.
—Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsocial
Adjective
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 May 2025
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Well Studio, and distributed by Janus Films and Sideshow Pictures, Flow follows a solitary cat that loses its home following a great flood.—
Ryan Fleming,
Deadline,
21 May 2025
Adjective
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Latinum, the second-place winner, provides payment middleware enabling Model Context Protocol builders to monetize their services, allowing AI agents to manage budgets and make autonomous payments.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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Baku, for its part, now positioned itself as a more autonomous actor, capable of engaging with Russia, Turkey, and the West on its own terms.—
Zaur Shiriyev,
Foreign Affairs,
26 May 2025
Adjective
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The two cities most affected, Jenin and Tulkarm, have long been controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the semiautonomous body that cooperates with Israel on security and that many Palestinians hoped would evolve into the government of a future state.—
Fatima AbdulKarim Afif Amireh,
New York Times,
8 May 2025
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The Trump administration has called for the U.S. to take control of Greenland, which is a semiautonomous territory that's part of Denmark, a NATO ally of the United States.—
Greg Myre,
NPR,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Trump and his team take an expansive view of the president’s powers, which has been met with resistance from federal judges, congressional Democrats, and independent agencies such as the GAO.—
Haisten Willis,
The Washington Examiner,
27 May 2025
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Kennedy's announcement comes as independent advisers have been reconsidering COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, NPR reports, but the outlet notes that the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is not currently scheduled to meet until later this month.—
Greta Bjornson,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 1 Jun. 2025.
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