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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
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
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
Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonsocial
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Based on the eponymous bestselling novel, this first-ever adaptation follows Crisóstomo (Santoro), a solitary fisherman who longs for a son.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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Yet the Kremlin’s battle with the West has turned solitary.—
Nina Khrushcheva,
Time,
3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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This demonstration highlights LimX Dynamics’ progress in embodied intelligence and autonomous motion while giving Oli a place in the list of highly agile and perceptive humanoid robots to look out for in the future.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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And the company is outfitting these facilities with high-tech equipment such as autonomous forklifts, to the tune of $200 million.—
Jennifer Bringle,
Sourcing Journal,
6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Denmark’s foreign minister has summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Copenhagen after the country’s national broadcaster reported that three people linked to President Donald Trump had been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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On Wednesday, four explosive-laden drones hit oil fields in the semiautonomous northern Iraqi region, according to the local counterterrorism service.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 July 2025
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Senator Angus King, who is independent but caucuses with the Democrats, also voted for the Republican bill on Tuesday.—
Amanda Castro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Oct. 2025
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The request Monday is to continue paying the salary for the coalition's two employees, as well as to allow the coalition to separate from Experience Fayetteville and become more independent.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
30 Sep. 2025
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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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