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
  • Of Kompany’s eight outfield substitutes on Tuesday, two — Lennart Karl and Jonah Kusi-Asare (both 17) have never played a Bundesliga or European minute for the club, and a third, Jonathan Asp (19) only has a solitary senior minute to his name.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Well, that and transforming a deeply solitary hobby into something much more communal.
    Leila Herrmann, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Trump's ambitions aren't far-fetched, according to an international relations expert who told ABC News that there are some avenues in which the U.S. could realistically acquire the autonomous Danish territory.
    Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Among the company’s strengths is the potential to actually benefit from the rise of autonomous vehicles, Cramer said, instead of losing out, as some investors have feared.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • President Trump has been insisting that the United States take over the icebound island, which is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark and has been connected to Denmark for more than 300 years.
    Maya Tekeli, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Greenland is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.
    Joe Hernandez, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Four years ago, for instance, Kurt Almqvist, an independent scholar and book publisher, found Anna Cassel’s journals—some 60 notebooks—in a storage cubby on the Swedish Anthroposophical Society compound.
    Jay Cheshes, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The government insists the judiciary is independent, but critics say the evidence in Imamoglu's case is based on secret witnesses and lacks credibility.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2025

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“Nonsocial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonsocial. Accessed 14 Apr. 2025.

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