nonsocial

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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. 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
  • What is a biographer to do with a solitary soul, especially one who, like Leonard, produces a half-dozen novels in the final decade of his life?
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • The 2023 World Cup was the first time since 1995 that Denmark had reached a major tournament knockout stage, and at Euro 2022, Harder scored their only goal in their solitary win, a 1-0 victory against Finland.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Some states have worked toward laws that mandate human operators in autonomous vehicles; others have fought against the proliferation of deepfakes flooding the internet; some have taken on data privacy and more.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 1 July 2025
  • Tesla’s autonomous ride hailing service went live just over a week ago with nearly a dozen robotaxis shuttling passengers in downtown Austin.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • During his time on the world’s biggest island the French leader will tour a glacier, a hydroelectric power station and a Danish warship moored near the semiautonomous territory’s capital, Nuuk, per the Élysée.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 June 2025
  • Greenland’s officials have said the Arctic island, a semiautonomous Danish territory, is not for sale.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • Annika Freyer has been named president of Fondation Chanel, while Elizabeth Broderick will become an independent chair of the board.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 1 July 2025
  • When Quaker acquired the quirky beverage brand for $1.7 billion, Snapple had built its success on unconventional marketing and distribution through small, independent distributors that matched its authentic, anti-establishment brand identity.
    Jennifer J. Fondrevay, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025

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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.

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