the social
noun
British, somewhat informal
: money provided by a government program to people who are unable to work because they are old, disabled, or unemployed
He's living on the social now.
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit Trump filed after he was suspended from the social media platforms following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Carrere, who originally voiced Lilo's older sister Nani, joins the cast as Mrs. Kekoa, a new character who is the social worker assigned to Lilo and Nani's case.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2025
One clip of the president's comments shared to X racked up over 1 million views as of the time of writing, while another had surpassed 500,000 on the social media platform.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
But advertisers began fleeing the social media platform nearly a year after Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, expressing concerns about the billionaire’s gutting of the platform’s content moderation team, mass layoffs, and uncertainty over the platform’s future.
—Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
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Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 26 May 2025
Carrere, who originally voiced Lilo's older sister Nani, joins the cast as Mrs. Kekoa, a new character who is the social worker assigned to Lilo and Nani's case.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 May 2025
One clip of the president's comments shared to X racked up over 1 million views as of the time of writing, while another had surpassed 500,000 on the social media platform.
—Jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 May 2025
But advertisers began fleeing the social media platform nearly a year after Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, expressing concerns about the billionaire’s gutting of the platform’s content moderation team, mass layoffs, and uncertainty over the platform’s future.
—Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 22 May 2025
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“The social.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20social. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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