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Recent Examples of sociality
No one has ever explained why on earth sociality would have anything to do with this phylogenetic break in the self-concept, says Povinelli.
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Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Why think that autonomy and sociality are always opposed, that mutual enmeshment must ever reduce the self rather than expand it?
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
Camp is historically and quintessentially gay, but, dislodged from any tempering gay sociality, Trump’s camp is cruelly straight.
—Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
The hippocampus is an ancient brain structure: It is highly conserved among mammals with diverse lifestyles and degrees of sociality, from largely solitary platypuses to highly communal people.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
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Karen Wright, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
Why think that autonomy and sociality are always opposed, that mutual enmeshment must ever reduce the self rather than expand it?
—Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
Camp is historically and quintessentially gay, but, dislodged from any tempering gay sociality, Trump’s camp is cruelly straight.
—Gabriel N. Rosenberg, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
The hippocampus is an ancient brain structure: It is highly conserved among mammals with diverse lifestyles and degrees of sociality, from largely solitary platypuses to highly communal people.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sociality
Noun
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The findings highlight that a richer social environment during rearing—one that includes contact with mothers and other cows—promotes greater sociability and social competence in adult cattle.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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Kin selection and reciprocal altruism are two natural modes of human sociability.—
Francis Fukuyama,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Aug. 2014
Noun
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The big picture: Trump's friendliness toward Putin isn't a new phenomenon.—
Dave Lawler,
Axios,
4 Mar. 2025
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Eschewing cult-leader cliché for a plummy everyday friendliness that eventually circles round to sinister, Ben Whishaw cleverly plays Elon as equal parts guru and grifter: His counsel is sometimes obvious, but what the person needs to hear just the same.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
27 Dec. 2024
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Such cordiality was impossible this time, and Dirk Hauser — head of media for Bayern’s academy then and to this day — had to keep the two men apart, in different parts of the old stadium.—
Sebastian Stafford-Bloor,
The Athletic,
27 Dec. 2024
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Hold on to your butts, Samuel L. Jackson is coming after awards season cordiality.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
28 Nov. 2024
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“Sociality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sociality. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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