as in solitary
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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
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In South Africa, a solitary orca nicknamed Starboard was observed eating a great white shark for the first time and the predation event was detailed in a study published in March in the African Journal of Marine Science.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024
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Indiana execution in-depth:The solitary life and crimes of Joseph Corcoran, who's set to be executed Dec. 18 What were Joseph Corcoran's crimes?Kristine Phillips, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Dec. 2024
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Among the reasons for the turnaround are the resiliency of Google Search, strong momentum in YouTube and Google Cloud , and potential upside from Waymo, which is proving to be a leader in the autonomous vehicle space .Zev Fima, CNBC, 27 Dec. 2024
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For a long time, some Kurds and their allies had hoped that the area the SDF carved out in northeastern Syria would eventually turn into an autonomous Kurdish zone, similar to the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq.Fatma Tanis, NPR, 27 Dec. 2024
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To be sure, Iraq now has a semiautonomous Kurdish region, and Ankara has not only made its peace with that but established good relations with the regional government.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
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Ultimately, given enough time, those digital memory constructs will evolve into what can be loosely described as our external brains in the cloud—imagine a semiautonomous process that knows enough about you to act on your behalf in a limited fashion.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2013
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An independent investigation provides confidence on the part of the public and families that the death review is objective and avoids any actual or perceived conflict of interest.Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2024
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Stocks in the same sector tend to move in tandem, rising or falling together, whereas gold frequently exhibits an inverse or independent movement from these patterns.Bob Haber, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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