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Recent Examples of operant
Researchers then had both groups compete against pain-free mice in a standard motivational test called a progressive ratio (PR) operant test, in which tasty treats become progressively harder to earn.
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Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
The current study investigated domestic cat preferences at the individual and population level using a free operant preference assessment.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
Bradfield probably could have parlayed that success into some sort of cushy position with Burnett, but his operant mode was reinvention.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2022
As such, mobile games have developed into monsters psychologically tuned to rip thousands out of players vulnerable enough to be operant conditioned into a game addiction.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
The current study investigated domestic cat preferences at the individual and population level using a free operant preference assessment.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
Bradfield probably could have parlayed that success into some sort of cushy position with Burnett, but his operant mode was reinvention.
—Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2022
As such, mobile games have developed into monsters psychologically tuned to rip thousands out of players vulnerable enough to be operant conditioned into a game addiction.
—Clem Chambers, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for operant
Adjective
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This uptick in market interest coincided with more efficient manufacturing practices and a growing interest in fashion after the boom of economic growth post-World War II.—
Brett F. Braley-Palko,
Forbes,
1 Mar. 2025
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Domino’s has also developed its own supply chain to diversify revenues, manufacturing ingredients like dough with efficient, labor-reducing technology and selling them to its franchisees, who get the ingredients at a low cost.—
Mark Dent,
thehustle.co,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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But the European Union’s post-national foreign policy is clearly more efficacious in some areas than in others.—
Kathleen R. McNamara,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Mar. 2014
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My company makes money when a third party provider recommends efficacious treatments of root cause non-pharmaceutical interventions.—
Miles Bryan,
Vox,
30 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Since 2014, that party has been disbanded, its remnants swept into the much smaller and less effectual Opposition Bloc.—
Konstantin Skorkin,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Feb. 2019
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Exceptions, such as the Iranian sanctions preceding the negotiation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are typically multinational, economically effectual, and explicit in stating the criteria and circumstances under which policy change would yield sanctions removal.—
Emma Ashford,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Nov. 2017
Adjective
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Firing all probationary employees—which is the most expedient way to reduce the size of government—is a blunt instrument.—
Eric Berger,
Ars Technica,
19 Feb. 2025
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The United States can also develop transient but expedient partnerships with democratic and nondemocratic states alike, particularly those that fear dominance by assertive regional powers.—
Mira Rapp-Hooper,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Apr. 2019
Adjective
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One dose is 93% effective, and two doses are 97% effective.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
28 Feb. 2025
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But to be effective, to save and change lives, to build strong, safe and prosperous nations, aid itself will have to change.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Operant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/operant. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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