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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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Last fall, Cromwell Valley Park’s critter cam captured a solitary beaver about 1000 yards downstream from that bridge, starting a new dam.—
Carl R. Gold,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Feb. 2025
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Picture John Wick, but with a solitary 60-year-old Korean lady stacking up the kill count with a sharp blade rather than Keanu with a Glock.—
Kevin Cassidy,
The Hollywood Reporter,
16 Feb. 2025
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To put this in perspective, autonomous vehicles in the commercial area will do about 15 million miles of driving in a virtual world in an hour of training on the cloud.—
Megan Poinski,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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Scientists do not yet know how to guarantee that autonomous agents won't use harmful or unethical methods to achieve a set goal.—
Harry Booth,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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Out in the cold: Greenland at centre of political power play but sees CONCACAF future Greenland has been thrust into geopolitical significance recently due to U.S. president Donald Trump’s ongoing proposal to purchase the semiautonomous territory of Denmark.—
Richard Amofa,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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Traditional automakers in Japan, the United States and Europe are facing mounting competition from newcomers like Tesla and China’s BYD, which have established a commanding lead in electric vehicles and technologies that enable semiautonomous driving and remote updates.—
River Akira Davis,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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Huemer started out in the independent film scene of 1980s New York, directing fourteen feature films before pivoting to engineering and industrial leadership.—
Kody Boye,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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Nicaragua’s dictator, Daniel Ortega, has abolished civil society and independent media.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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