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Recent Examples of noncooperative
Dolphins that partnered with fishers also experienced a 13 percent boost in survival, compared with noncooperative ones, most likely because of the animals spending the majority of their time in the lagoon.
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Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2023
Cooperative birds' cheating rate averaged around 12 percent, while noncooperative birds around 23 percent.
—Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
The staff remembers him as mild, withdrawn, clearly smart, but also steadfastly noncooperative.
—New York Times, 26 July 2022
The disclosures would also extend to activities in jurisdictions that are on the EU’s list of noncooperative jurisdictions.
—Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good.
—Parker Crutchfield, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2023
Cooperative birds' cheating rate averaged around 12 percent, while noncooperative birds around 23 percent.
—Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
The staff remembers him as mild, withdrawn, clearly smart, but also steadfastly noncooperative.
—New York Times, 26 July 2022
The disclosures would also extend to activities in jurisdictions that are on the EU’s list of noncooperative jurisdictions.
—Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
My research in bioethics focuses on questions like how to induce those who are noncooperative to get on board with doing what’s best for the public good.
—Parker Crutchfield, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for noncooperative
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San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies arrived to find Bernstein uncooperative and the home in disarray.Jason Green, The Mercury News, 5 Dec. 2024
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Pollard allegedly refused to identify himself to police and acted belligerent and uncooperative, the affidavit stated.Andrea Klick, Orange County Register, 5 Dec. 2024
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Surely even the most recalcitrant of Emmy voters will have a hard time resisting a performance this impeccably showy.Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Dec. 2024
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But even with much of its attention called to Asia, Washington cannot ignore a recalcitrant and revanchist adversary in Europe, especially not one that will pose a direct military threat to NATO members.Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
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And yet, cultural algorithms are only downstream of the larger, intractable forces that shape how art is made and supported.T.M. Brown, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Among them were developments on famously intractable problems such as the Riemann hypothesis and the abc conjecture.Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024
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At any point, a willingness to be both selfish and disobedient would have saved her.Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 25 Sep. 2024
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In this view, disobedient journalists, scientific experts, officials, and judges are the enemy.Pippa Norris, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2021
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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered a defiant speech last Wednesday, insisting that the Axis was alive and well.Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Only after defiant parliament members rushed into the National Assembly and voted unanimously to reject the order did Yoon reverse course, ending six chaotic hours, which saw protests erupt in the capital city.Dylan Butts, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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Making clear that any future conflict would end with the reunification of the entire peninsula under the South’s authority should increase the North’s restraint, as well as reinforce China’s efforts to rein in its obstreperous ally.Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2013
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Featuring bodies stacked like cords of wood and a bloated S.S. guard dangling from an iron hook, the spread was an obstreperous incursion among the kind of fashion and perfume ads that Miller had once shot or appeared in.Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2024
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More recently, however, Ocasio-Cortez has shown signs of abandoning at least some of the rebellious positions that defined her earliest years in office.Hanna Trudo, The Hill, 22 Dec. 2024
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Americans are a rebellious bunch, so trying to stop a political figure by nearly killing him provokes the opposite reaction.Gord Magill, Newsweek, 22 Dec. 2024
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Over the summer, a wayward cluster of metallic balloons triggered a widespread power outage in Orleans Parish after coming into contact with a power line.Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
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The magnetic field stamps out the flickers by pushing any wayward pairs to align with the overall gyre.Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Noncooperative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/noncooperative. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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