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"Another character, the sociable Roy, is also at the coffee shop. \u2014 Randall G. Mielke, chicagotribune.com , 6 Apr. 2022",
"In an hourlong conversation, Garten \u2014 brisk, sociable \u2014 discussed her passion for French butter, Nordic dramas and a very American musical. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"ACE Adventure Resort and Adventures on the Gorge are among the best for families, while Arrowhead Bike Farm has a sociable campground by its open-air craft beer bar. \u2014 Mark Johanson, CNN , 31 May 2021",
"Slick, sociable , never at a loss for a quip, and retaining an innate cowboy swagger deep in the DNA inherited from his Nogales, Arizona, cattle-rancher father, Baffert cut a winning, handsome figure at racetracks across the country. \u2014 Guy Martin, Forbes , 1 May 2022",
"On 19th April, the Sun will leave the sign of the ram and enter into the sociable sign of the bull, bringing us a more relaxed vibe to the world around us. \u2014 Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Oxytocin\u2019s possible use to promote friendly encounters holds promise for captive lions, who might trade unnatural and unhealthy isolation for shared spaces with sociable new companions. \u2014 Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
"Scientists say research off Mexico's Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean shows great white sharks are sociable and will sometimes work together to increase their chances of catching prey. \u2014 Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY , 24 Mar. 2022",
"The sociable Weddle always has a friend on the opposing NFL team, and counts Bengals running back Joe Mixon among his buddies. \u2014 Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 Feb. 2022"
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"nongregarious",
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"\u2014 Michael W. Fox",
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"\u2014 Gerald R. Leslie and Sheila K. Korman"
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"\u2014 Michael W. Fox",
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"\u2014 Science"
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"She has poor social skills.",
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"I joined the club to improve my social life .",
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"social institutions like marriage and family",
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"Martin Luther King, Jr., fought for social change.",
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"Noun",
"The club has socials every month.",
"He's living on the social now.",
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"Prior to being appointed commissioner, Kovol was appointed last year as a special assistant to Dunleavy tasked with addressing social services such as domestic violence and homelessness. \u2014 Iris Samuels, Anchorage Daily News , 30 June 2022",
"At the top of the list: affordable housing, access to food and growing social services and programs. \u2014 Roxanne De La Rosa, The Arizona Republic , 29 June 2022",
"United Way of Broward County, a social services non-profit, launched Housing United, a funding initiative geared towards helping finance affordable housing projects throughout Broward County. \u2014 Amber Randall, Sun Sentinel , 28 June 2022",
"Despite the overall cuts to the department, the board approved new investments in behavioral health care and other social services. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 28 June 2022",
"Griffin\u2019s list is largely focused on programs related to housing, community development and social services \u2013 areas that received only a small portion in ARPA money approved last year, under the former mayor and City Council. \u2014 Courtney Astolfi, cleveland , 27 June 2022",
"San Francisco\u2019s chief economist Ted Egan told The Times that generally, less spending and economic activity means more demand for social services. \u2014 Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
"Pete Wilson, the state\u2019s Republican governor through the \u201990s, championed Proposition 187, which set up a screening system to prevent undocumented immigrants from accessing social services. \u2014 Nathan Heller, Vogue , 22 June 2022",
"Manchester\u2019s government would expand social services, recreational programs, housing and economic development and other initiatives. \u2014 Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant , 20 June 2022",
"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Along with July marking National Blueberry Month, South Haven\u2019s National Blueberry Festival (blueberryfestival.com), set this year for Aug. 11-14, is another great excuse to indulge with children\u2019s pie-eating contests, a parade and a pie social . \u2014 Joanne Cleaver, Chicago Tribune , 29 June 2022",
"The observatory has remained closed to the public since the start of the pandemic out of respect for the Tohono O\u2019odham tribe\u2019s social -gathering policies. \u2014 New York Times , 19 June 2022",
"Mirna Ibarra sits next to her partner Cydney Caradonna during a Mother's Day social at Iowa House Sunday, May 8, 2022. \u2014 Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune , 1 June 2022",
"The program kicks off on a sweet note June 4 with an ice cream social , and in June and July there will be theme weeks including Junior Ranger Week, Woodland Wonders Week, Bug Detectives Week, Under The Stars Week and others. \u2014 Jeff Vorva, chicagotribune.com , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Those students also expressed more satisfaction with life, had a higher sense of social -belonging, engaged in more extracurricular activities and tended to seek out campus resources for help. \u2014 Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The Biden administration\u2019s social -spending and climate bill, currently stalled in Congress, includes several drug-pricing provisions that would rein in drugmakers\u2019 pricing power. \u2014 Joseph Walker, WSJ , 30 Jan. 2022",
"Many free and commercial sharing apps have sprung up in response to the rising interest in dark social . \u2014 Sayantan Dasgupta, Forbes , 28 Jan. 2022",
"The provision is part of the latest version of the party\u2019s social -spending and climate bill that could pass as soon as next week. \u2014 Richard Rubin, WSJ , 10 Nov. 2021"
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},
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"In his view, all states, far from being derived from some social contract , arise as protection rackets and largely remain so. \u2014 Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker , 16 May 2022",
"For most of American history, courts treated the protection of health as an important aspect of the social contract , one that is implicitly woven into our laws. \u2014 Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American , 17 May 2022",
"More and more companies are prioritizing a conscientious social contract with the communities who support them\u2014communities that comprise customers, employees, managers, suppliers and everyone else who keeps a business ticking over. \u2014 Samantha Martin-williams, Forbes , 14 Apr. 2022",
"On social media, a growing number of citizens are accusing the Communist Party of breaching its social contract with the people. \u2014 New York Times , 31 Mar. 2022",
"The number of first-generation students on campus became a new benchmark, a sign that a university was fulfilling its social contract . \u2014 Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker , 28 Mar. 2022",
"Broad shifts in sensibility, taste, and topical relevance can make an artist seem to speak singularly to a historical moment\u2014and just as rapidly, this tacit social contract can be dramatically overhauled, or jettisoned altogether. \u2014 Chris Lehmann, The New Republic , 7 Dec. 2021",
"In the 1980s, that social contract was broken, such that now, only 1 out of 4 people who need federal housing aid actually get it. \u2014 Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune , 3 Oct. 2021",
"The regime must have sensed that something was amiss, that the social contract Batka had relied on for so long was fraying. \u2014 New York Times , 30 Mar. 2022"
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
"Has this little experiment in social psychology been worth it",
"In such a widening gyre, Mounk\u2019s calm mix of storytelling, political theory and social psychology exegesis, peppered with some charming insights, has a comforting seriousness. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Apr. 2022",
"That behavior in social psychology is called intermittent reinforcement. \u2014 Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com , 26 Mar. 2022",
"The class includes a crash course in social psychology \u2014 how people often let emotion dictate reason and the benefits and drawbacks to working as a group. \u2014 Jennifer Miller, Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Simpson taught two courses: The social psychology of the Holocaust and sport and exercise psychology beginning in February 2019. \u2014 Marc Hayot, Arkansas Online , 21 Jan. 2022",
"The behavior isn\u2019t surprising, though, says Dr. Shira Gabriel, a professor of social psychology at the University of Buffalo. \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 28 Jan. 2022",
"In 1954, a researcher named Muzafer Sherif conducted what would become one of the most famous experiments in social psychology . \u2014 Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker , 11 Jan. 2022",
"But anecdotes are not rigorously collected evidence, and the authority of research in social psychology is, to put it charitably, dubious. \u2014 Samuel Goldman, The Week , 8 Jan. 2022"
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"s\u014d\u02c8k\u0113\u0259\u02cct\u00e4s",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
"Why did the relatively happy \u201990s featuring a leading man always being held down by society ",
"Access to real-time secure payments has become an important step toward a more just society . \u2014 Alex Salkever, Fortune , 30 June 2022",
"The plan has met fierce criticism from human rights organizations including the UNHCR, as well as from British politicians and sectors of British society . \u2014 Frey Lindsay, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
"Into this power- society labyrinth walks Vicky Haven, a childhood friend of Amanda\u2019s, freshly arrived from Ohio, hoping to make it in the big city. \u2014 New York Times , 30 June 2022",
"At its core, The Princess is an underdog story, set in a patriarchal society . \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 30 June 2022",
"It\u2019s about challenging a society that genders people without their consent. \u2014 Phillip Zonkel, USA TODAY , 29 June 2022",
"Over the past three decades, Ukraine has developed an imperfect but functioning democracy, budding civil society , and a distinct national identity. \u2014 Daria Mattingly, CNN , 29 June 2022",
"Although none of the characters are based on real people, the story accurately depicts Imperial Russian society with additional themes of religion, family and love. \u2014 Annie O\u2019sullivan, Good Housekeeping , 29 June 2022"
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"congress",
"consortium",
"council",
"fellowship",
"fraternity",
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"league",
"order",
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"\u2014 James Jones"
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"bat",
"belt",
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"paste",
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"rap",
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"smite",
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"wallop",
"whack",
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": something outstanding or exceptional":[],
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},
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"the professor called it one sockdolager of a short story, but he seemed to be the only one in the room amused by this description"
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"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
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"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
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"honey",
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"lulu",
"nifty",
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"The plan right now is a streaming release and social promotion for the song. \u2014 Jessica Nicholson, Billboard , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Just this week, he was tapped for Spotify's global emerging artist program RADAR, which includes features in the RADAR playlist, promotional support for his upcoming releases, on-platform marketing, bespoke content and social promotion . \u2014 Lars Brandle, Billboard , 13 Aug. 2021",
"Or turning its most accomplished business leaders into beneficiaries of social promotion . \u2014 Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ , 8 Dec. 2020",
"Her publisher wants more online social promotion , more appearances on TV or in radio. \u2014 Nathan Mattise, Ars Technica , 11 Oct. 2020",
"In order to make sure that people are well aware of the improved product, Chipotle is planning a marketing push that includes television commercials, digital and social promotion . \u2014 Danielle Wiener-bronner, CNN , 26 Feb. 2020",
"This takes away from others an important chance at social promotion in a country that offers surprisingly few. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 22 Jan. 2020",
"According to an in-depth study released this week, wealth is increasingly concentrated in fewer hands because of uneven access to the educational opportunities necessary for social promotion , not to mention decades of tax breaks for the wealthy. \u2014 Annalisa Merelli, Quartz , 10 Oct. 2019",
"Some school districts do continue to have social promotion policies, which became popular over concerns that holding kids back would discourage them from trying and compound the problem. \u2014 Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun , 11 Apr. 2018"
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"a lifelong socialist who never lost faith in his cause",
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"Bitcoin is private property, something for which Petro, a socialist , has not shown much respect. \u2014 Frank Holmes, Forbes , 25 Apr. 2022",
"George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, essayist, and co-founder of the London School of Economics, attributed his becoming a socialist to hearing George give a speech in London in 1882. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Stalin was in the audience, along with foreign delegates such as Palmiro Togliatti, a leader of the Italian Communist Party, and Ho Chi Minh, then a young Vietnamese socialist , who had travelled to Moscow on a fake Chinese passport. \u2014 The New Yorker , 18 Oct. 2021",
"Regular columnists include Malcolm Kyeyune, a Swedish socialist currently affiliated with Oikos, a think tank founded by the former leader of the Sweden Democrats, a right-wing populist-nationalist party. \u2014 New York Times , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Minna, something of a champagne socialist , judges the nearby establishments too bourgeois. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"These experiences led Orwell to identify as a socialist and member of the British political left. \u2014 Mark Satta, The Conversation , 14 Mar. 2022",
"Meanwhile, Fabian\u2019s best friend, a Ph.D. candidate and Champagne socialist named Labude (Albrecht Schuch), frets about his thesis even as he gets drawn away from academia by debauchery. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 9 Mar. 2022",
"Progressives see in leftist Honduran President Xiomara Castro a unique opportunity to impose their socialist , woke agenda on the conservative Central American nation. \u2014 Mary Anastasia O\u2019grady, WSJ , 6 Mar. 2022"
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"Timmons Roberts, an environmental studies and sociology professor at Brown who helped call attention to the Koch funding, is now working with Brown officials to finalize the new rules. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 13 June 2022",
"There are profound racial and class inequalities in the United States, and our tolerance of death is partly based on who is at risk, says Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, a sociology professor at the University of Minnesota who studies mortality. \u2014 Michelle R. Smith, Anchorage Daily News , 21 May 2022",
"Esther Chow, 78, a sociology professor emerita at American University in Washington who retired in 2011 after for 38 years on the faculty, died April 11 at a hospital in Washington. \u2014 Washington Post , 4 May 2022",
"But an increase in the practice wouldn\u2019t be surprising to Brian Powell, a sociology professor at Indiana University who studies family and gender. \u2014 Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic , 29 Apr. 2022",
"Legally, this isn\u2019t a strike, because these sellers are not employees of Etsy, says Chris Rhomberg, a sociology professor at Fordham University. \u2014 Jane Thier, Fortune , 4 Apr. 2022",
"American attitudes on immigration are based on perception, not reality, said Ren\u00e9 D. Flores, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago who studies public opinion and immigration. \u2014 Colleen Long And Chris Megerian, chicagotribune.com , 2 Apr. 2022",
"The director of the Cold Case Program, sociology professor Ashlyn Kuersten, estimated that doctoral students Ashley Chlebek and Carl Huber logged 1,200 hours of work over eight months on the case. \u2014 NBC News , 31 Mar. 2022"
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"More intriguing is that the artist didn\u2019t quite abandon socialist realism , the official style she was taught at Beijing\u2019s Central Academy of the Arts. \u2014 Washington Post , 6 Oct. 2021",
"His movies represented a radical departure from socialist realism , a typical communist-era genre focusing on realistically depicting the struggles of the working class. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 7 Sep. 2020",
"Nearly a century on, socialist realism can finally be fun. \u2014 Sophie Pinkham, The New York Review of Books , 18 Nov. 2019",
"The Nazis forced the Bauhaus out of Dessau in 1932, and in the same year the Soviet Union dissolved independent artists\u2019 unions and promulgated the single style of socialist realism . \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 2 Apr. 2018",
"Not some ideological socialist realism , but the day to day unprettified round of ordinary life. \u2014 The Economist , 21 Apr. 2018",
"This show is a bit too light on Tarsila\u2019s later work, concentrating on the genesis moment of Brazilian Modernism in the 1920s, rather than her 1930s engagement with socialist realism , a genre MoMA has always shied away from. \u2014 Jason Farago, New York Times , 15 Feb. 2018",
"In the thirties and forties, in ways that became art-world conventional wisdom, some critics equated regionalism with the blood-and-soil mystique of Nazism and/or socialist realism . \u2014 Steven Strogatz, The New Yorker , 5 Mar. 2018",
"Three Songs About Lenin (1934), Lullaby (1937), and The Three Heroines (1938) all hewed to the Stalinist party line, though Vertov's abiding sense of reverie left him out of step with the socialist realism of the era. \u2014 J.r. Jones, Chicago Reader , 15 Sep. 2017"
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"The triumph of social democracy in the 20th-century West has imbued Piketty with the confidence that humanity can transition to a new stage of equality. \u2014 Gary Gerstle, Washington Post , 17 June 2022",
"Leon Trotsky was exiled to Central Asia, a grain crisis prompted rapid industrialization, and the Sixth World Congress of the Communist International, held in Moscow, denounced social democracy as a form of fascism. \u2014 Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker , 17 Mar. 2022",
"The European Union is driven by a values based approach to its community (much of which is lost on its 500 million citizens), based around social democracy . \u2014 Mike O'sullivan, Forbes , 14 May 2022",
"In a sense, the social-democratic platform succeeded so that the kinds of social benefits associated with social democracy are now well entrenched in France; even right-wingers do not intend to repeal them. \u2014 Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker , 14 Apr. 2022",
"American Europhiles are equally unaware of the price tag of social democracy : If the U.S had Denmark\u2019s fiscal policy, Harsanyi writes, everyone who makes more than $65,000 a year would hit the maximum 55.9 percent income-tax rate. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 5 Apr. 2022",
"This remarkably weak Democratic trifecta can't usher in Scandinavian-style social democracy or tackle climate change in any meaningful way. \u2014 David Faris, The Week , 29 Mar. 2022",
"What the party did not do in the early twentieth century was become a vehicle for social democracy , powered by organized labor and advocating for the pillars of a modern welfare state, as emerging mass parties in Western Europe did at the time. \u2014 Sam Rosenfeld, The New Republic , 15 Feb. 2022",
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"She is quite right, for example, to stress that Thatcher's crusade against socialism was not merely about economic efficiency and prosperity but that above all, \"it was that socialism itself\u2014in all its incarnations, wherever and however it was applied\u2014was morally corrupting.\" \u2014 Stephen Pollard , New York Times Book Review , 18 Jan. 2009",
"Lenin's great genius, of course, was for ideology, which was redefined all too often to support the tactical requirements of the moment. But owing to his fanatical conviction of his own righteousness, especially where socialism was concerned, and also to the Promethean force of his will, his pronouncements were enshrined by his followers as universal truths. \u2014 Michael Scammell , New Republic , 20 Dec. 1999",
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"And while democratic socialism is not the same thing as socialism , that nuance has been glossed over in past Republican attacks -- and, as the post-mortem makes clear, voters don't tend to see that nuance either. \u2014 Chris Cillizza, CNN , 7 June 2021",
"At the conclusion of Lili\u2019s story, France awakens to socialism and elects its first left-wing government in years\u2014a note of hope. \u2014 Claire Messud, Harper\u2019s Magazine , 16 Mar. 2022",
"Paul is running on a staunchly conservative platform and has a long history of talking about the need for America to protect personal liberties and to steer clear of socialism . \u2014 Morgan Watkins, The Courier-Journal , 17 May 2022",
"Other ideas James singles out for clarification include crisis, debt, populism, socialism , and neoliberalism. \u2014 Ian Beacock, The New Republic , 22 Feb. 2022",
"Christian socialists use this passage to argue socialism was a historical reality for the followers of Christ. \u2014 Alexander William Salter, WSJ , 21 Apr. 2022",
"New England is often viewed as a bastion of liberalism and socialism , but the NSC hopes to find fertile ground for an opposing ideology, or at the least a place where its message of white solidarity will resonate, Hughey said. \u2014 Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant , 18 Apr. 2022",
"All the math texts describe this creation of a pagan mathematician from ancient Greece, whose philosophy resembled modern socialism . \u2014 Steven Salzberg, Forbes , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Big government socialism is a failed and dangerous experiment. \u2014 The Arizona Republic , 10 Jan. 2022"
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"The shortage has sparked outrage, dismay and more than a little scheming on social media accounts. \u2014 Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News , 17 June 2022",
"Cherkasov appeared to study later at Trinity College Dublin and Johns Hopkins, according to his social media accounts. \u2014 Adam Taylor, BostonGlobe.com , 16 June 2022",
"The black-and-white image shared on the Clarence House social media accounts showed Charles holding Louis with their arms wrapped around each other in a tight embrace. \u2014 Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com , 16 June 2022",
"The announcement comes shortly after the singer raised fans\u2019 suspicions by wiping the profile pictures on her social media accounts \u2014 suggesting something big was on the way. \u2014 Christi Carrasstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times , 16 June 2022",
"As Vory\u2019s fame only continues to broaden, curious fans are itching to know more and more about the multi-faceted artist who has some of the biggest placements of the year yet hardly ever posts on his social media accounts. \u2014 Regina Cho, Billboard , 16 June 2022",
"The rhetoric has been amplified by right-wing social media accounts that use photos and videos of LGBTQ individuals to drive outrage among their followers. \u2014 Rebecca Boone, Anchorage Daily News , 14 June 2022",
"Organizers say anyone who can\u2019t make it to the march can find a live-stream on the group\u2019s social media accounts. \u2014 Ellie Silverman, Washington Post , 11 June 2022",
"Images taken from local CCTV cameras that kept running in the early days of the invasion, as well as photos taken from Russian social media accounts and the phones of dead or detained soldiers, are offering leads on suspects. \u2014 Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor , 10 June 2022"
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"As a socialite and a former serial monogamous, my adult years have teemed with staggering levels of distraction. \u2014 Alex Wagner, SPIN , 16 June 2022",
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"The British socialite and ex-girlfriend of Epstein has been locked up since her arrest and complained repeatedly about the abhorrent conditions of her confinement. \u2014 Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News , 15 Nov. 2021",
"In May, a wealthy socialite and a senior police official were on a moonlit pier in paradise. \u2014 CBS News , 2 Oct. 2021",
"Real-life socialite and Bright Young Thing, Diana Mitford (Amber Anderson), is introduced as one of the conspirators who wants Great Britain to follow in the footsteps of 1930s Germany and Italy. \u2014 Emma Fraser, Town & Country , 11 June 2022",
"In the beginning, there was a wealthy socialite who dressed up like a bat to solve crimes. \u2014 Oliver Sava, EW.com , 8 Mar. 2022",
"Martha is a celebrity Arkansan socialite and wife to Nixon\u2019s loyal Attorney General, John Mitchell (Penn). \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 2 Feb. 2022",
"Epstein\u2019s longtime associate, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, was convicted on Wednesday of helping recruit and groom underage girls for Epstein to abuse over at least a decade. \u2014 NBC News , 1 Jan. 2022"
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"The United States women\u2019s national soccer team will take on Colombia (Las Cafeteras) on Tuesday, June 28 at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. \u2014 Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al , 28 June 2022",
"His community\u2019s soccer team, Maccabi Bnei Reineh, did not exist until six years ago. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
"After graduating from college in 2017, Matthews signed with the Icelandic professional soccer team Afturelding/Fram. \u2014 Jacklyn Krol, PEOPLE.com , 27 June 2022",
"Megan Rapinoe was not originally scheduled to speak to the media Friday before the U.S. women's national soccer team faced Colombia in a friendly match in Colorado. \u2014 Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY , 24 June 2022",
"Jimmy Buffett and Jason Mraz will perform this fall at the first-ever concert at Mission Valley\u2019s Snapdragon Stadium, the new home of the San Diego State University Aztecs football team and The Wave FC women\u2019s soccer team. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 23 June 2022",
"The Alaska Eclipse girls U17 club soccer team came up just short last weekend of becoming the third ever Alaska team to claim a regional title at the USYS Far West Presidents Cup. \u2014 Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News , 23 June 2022",
"It\u2019s the first soccer team run mostly by women, along with Serena's (Williams) husband (Alexis Ohanian). \u2014 Melissa Murphy, ajc , 23 June 2022",
"For the role, soccer team part-owner Portman worked with a trainer for 10 months, although not even the most talented physical trainer could make the actor taller, which the script called for. \u2014 Elizabeth Logan, Glamour , 22 June 2022"
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"Lachey plays the leader of our new group, Special Agent in Charge Jane Tennant, a soccer mom and a tough-as-nails agent. \u2014 Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY , 17 Sep. 2021",
"Gunness adopts children and becomes what Bruce calls a bit of a soccer mom who buys them a pony, among other lavish gifts. \u2014 Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star , 7 July 2021",
"Bly-Chester was a no-nonsense soccer mom easily frustrated by the ocean of civic clowns that floated around her. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 2 June 2021",
"This soccer mom \u2014tennis mom, actually\u2014was yearning for a spot of tea while watching matches, so the hubsters lent me his Zojirushi thermos/mug. \u2014 Julie Tong, Vogue , 2 May 2021",
"Long haulers are eager for more research, including Carlton, who misses her work assisting in a classroom and her home life as soccer mom and family cook. \u2014 al , 31 Dec. 2020",
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"Shaw was paid to play a ferocious sociopath on a kamikaze course through society, a role that called for a type of rage and recklessness that had invaded his youth, and nearly driven him to murder. \u2014 Jonathan Rowe, SPIN , 28 June 2022",
"Homelander is\u2026a fascist sociopath , always has been. \u2014 Paul Tassi, Forbes , 20 June 2022",
"The plot revolves around the meltdown of Homelander (Antony Starr), the show\u2019s answer to the question: What if Superman was a sociopath ",
"But Ray Liotta as Henry Hill, the viewer\u2019s docent into the criminal world, injects a note of tenderness that\u2019s all the more effective for coming out of the mouth of a slick sociopath . \u2014 New York Times , 26 May 2022",
"For only one sociopath to hold a seat in Congress is notable. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 6 Apr. 2022",
"Anna Delvey is alleged to be many things: a master manipulator, a genius with a photographic memory, a charismatic sociopath . \u2014 Emma Dibdin, ELLE , 11 Feb. 2022",
"Butcher's probably pushed Ryan one step closer to becoming a sociopath like Homelander, who's growing more and more unhinged by the second. \u2014 Alex Raiman, EW.com , 3 June 2022",
"And the fascination of it is that the movie, for all its hypnotic gangland escapades, was powered by a teasing question: Was Henry Hill, the real-life mobster portrayed by Liotta, a sociopath just like that other Ray"
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"An outstanding question, asked by gay commentators like the author Andrew Sullivan, is whether some kids who socially transition today, and remain trans, would have grown up to be gay or lesbian in previous generations. \u2014 New York Times , 15 June 2022",
"In the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites who have been liberated from slavery are commanded to set up systems of care for the most socially marginalized. \u2014 Danya Ruttenberg, The Atlantic , 14 June 2022",
"Its authors say the findings highlight lingering inequities, even in a state that has prioritized vaccinating socially vulnerable groups. \u2014 Kate Sheridan, STAT , 13 June 2022",
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"For fans of Latin jazz and socially stirring music of any kind, this fandango should be hard to match. \u2014 George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"What to drink that's not alcohol that leaves you socially and physically satisfied. \u2014 Elijah Rawls, Men's Health , 10 June 2022"
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"This essence of a sociality is why Twitter appeals to black people, so much so that there\u2019s a subset of the platform with its own proper noun (Black Twitter). \u2014 Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books , 6 July 2022",
"Lastly, sociality and community are huge aspects of direct selling. \u2014 George Elfond, Forbes , 3 June 2022",
"Observations of other species have shown that sociality can increase an animal's ability to take advantage of another's hunting success. \u2014 People Staff, PEOPLE.com , 22 Mar. 2022",
"Marmots, a genus spanning 15 species of varying sociality \u2014 including alpine marmots living in multigenerational family groups, semi-social yellow-bellied marmots and ostensibly antisocial groundhogs \u2014 were a natural subject. \u2014 New York Times , 1 Feb. 2022",
"In Zuckerberg\u2019s hands the vision of sociality , community, and experience existing on this frontier will be devastatingly limited and, like Turner\u2019s frontier, inevitably structured by harm. \u2014 Lisa Messeri, Wired , 12 Nov. 2021",
"The social nature of animals is an extension of the sociality seen at lower rungs of the ladder, Picard said. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 6 July 2021",
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"Each chapter examines a different aspect of animal behavior on Earth that, according to the author, would likely be replicated on other planets: sociality , cooperation, communication, intelligence, language and so forth. \u2014 David P. Barash, WSJ , 17 Mar. 2021"
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"The advent of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and other data security measures that allow people to work from home when needed is insulating some businesses during this crisis as well. \u2026 [Rob] Arnold said that socially distancing ourselves in that way really offers a way to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.",
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"Some of these threats include malware, ransomware, phishing attacks and social engineering . \u2014 Michael Gargiulo, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"Employee information available online, either intentionally or accidentally, can be used to concoct social engineering schemes that could be the first step in a cyberattack. \u2014 Fred Burton, Forbes , 7 June 2022",
"Many cybercriminals bypass these methods entirely through the use of phishing and other social engineering tactics, deceiving privileged employees into revealing confidential information or exposing sensitive systems to malware. \u2014 Forbes , 26 Jan. 2022",
"Using social engineering tactics, the attackers tricked Mailchimp customer support employees into handing over their login credentials. \u2014 Michael Kan, PCMAG , 4 Apr. 2022",
"Instead, what the infected app actually does is use social engineering tricks to steal your Facebook login details. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 22 Mar. 2022",
"The CryptoRom scammers rely heavily on social engineering . \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 16 Mar. 2022",
"In most cases, a vulnerability is exploited through social engineering or exploitation. \u2014 Robert Boudreaux, Forbes , 27 Oct. 2021",
"The scam uses social engineering and fraudulent apps to steal money from its unsuspecting victims. \u2014 Jacob Siegal, BGR , 18 Mar. 2022"
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"Performing this week is Upstream, with reggae, soca and Caribbean music. \u2014 Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune , 12 June 2022",
"Bachanal at the Bullpen: How many dance parties get a crowd moving by spinning Afrobeats, bachata, soca and go-go",
"The Caribbean-themed Islands Lounge in Wheaton is celebrating Carnival on Saturday at the Pop-Up Carnival Fete, with veteran DJs Sprang International, Super Slice and Fyah Oats spinning soca from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m., with a $20 cover in advance. \u2014 Washington Post , 27 Feb. 2021",
"Rotimi Fani-Kayode art, soca music, Bolden skincare, black groundnuts, gold ceilings, fruit stands (mangoes to eat with sweet soy sauce and guavas are favorites), clothes that feel like pajamas, cacti. \u2014 Riza Cruz, ELLE , 9 Feb. 2022",
"Drama about an aspiring soca dancer from Trinidad and Tobago. \u2014 Times Staff, Los Angeles Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
"On a searing Saturday afternoon, a massive crowd in neon beach attire bounces in unison to bass-heavy soca beats at the Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition grounds 20 miles south of Miami Beach. \u2014 Francisco Alvarado, Rolling Stone , 11 Oct. 2021",
"The good news is that the reggae, soca and dancehall acts \u2014 Third World, Barington Levy, Alison Hinds, Patrice Roberts, Peter Ram and Julien Believe \u2014 have all agreed to perform on the new date, Dec. 12. \u2014 Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com , 31 Aug. 2021",
"And, of course, the reggae, dancehall and soca stars onstage. \u2014 Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com , 19 Aug. 2021"
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"The basic reason why Congress added an earnings test to the Social Security law is because Social Security is considered to be a social insurance program. \u2014 Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes , 22 May 2022",
"As Economist Kathleen Romig notes, Republicans and Democrats have come together before to solve big social insurance problems. \u2014 Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes , 3 Jan. 2022",
"The company was told in July to ensure its workers are paid above minimum wage, get basic social insurance and a relaxation in delivery deadlines. \u2014 Yue Wang, Forbes , 8 Oct. 2021",
"Instead, China generates the bulk of its tax revenue from two levies that fall disproportionately on the poor: value added taxes on consumer goods and social insurance taxes. \u2014 Yvonne Lau, Fortune , 26 Oct. 2021",
"Arnone emphasizes the distinction between social assistance programs, which are means-tested and targeted, and social insurance programs such as Medicare and Social Security, which are designed to be universal. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 21 Oct. 2021",
"The United States has long been an entitlement society, with the government operating a variety of social insurance programs to lessen hardship. \u2014 Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com , 13 Oct. 2021",
"The key to insurance For social insurance to succeed, the vast majority of workers should participate. \u2014 Howard Gleckman, Forbes , 6 Oct. 2021",
"These kinds of headlines were prompted by a report released last week from the Social Security Board of Trustees that said the nation\u2019s bedrock social insurance program is one year closer to insolvency. \u2014 Tom Margenau, Dallas News , 19 Sep. 2021"
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"Trans women also face numerous sociological and psychological disadvantages that can affect athletic performance. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb dissect pop culture through a sociological and psychological lens while also making listeners laugh. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 25 June 2022",
"The whole film has a certain sociological approach. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Tocqueville moved thinking about democracy from political to sociological ground. \u2014 Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The idea is based on contact theory, a sociological concept that person-to-person contact can help reduce friction. \u2014 Byadisa Hargett-robinson, ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Here, though, collaborating with Melissa James Gibson, his eye for sociological detail feels less practiced, as if crossing the Atlantic gave him indulgence to be a bit loose and lazy in his world-building. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The Hood, the show delivered classic gangster flick-level quality every week, bringing the uncompromising gruesomeness and sociological commentary on drug dealing and addiction of the best from the genre. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 8 Apr. 2022",
"For instance, French sociologist \u00c9mile Durkheim used official death statistics in his classic sociological work on suicide in 1897. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 4 Apr. 2022"
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"This seemingly innocuous post was a violation of a state law that put a lifetime ban on a registrant\u2019s access to any social networking website that also allows minors to make accounts. \u2014 Sarah Lageson, Wired , 23 Feb. 2022",
"As a social networking platform, individuals should cognize the importance of having a fully complete and impressive profile. \u2014 Robin Ryan, Forbes , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to President Volodymyr Zelensky, posted on social networking site Telegram that most of a large Russian military unit had been destroyed in heavy fighting over the past weeks. \u2014 Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com , 4 June 2022",
"This would mean Trump cannot use Twitter as his main social networking site, even after Elon Musk, the company\u2019s potential new owner, cleared the way for his return. \u2014 Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter , 16 May 2022",
"The early victims included VKontakte, Russia\u2019s biggest social networking site, which operates much like Facebook. \u2014 Washington Post , 20 Apr. 2022",
"The government has tried to quell the demonstrations by instituting a state of emergency and blocking social networking sites and chat apps, including Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and, for the first time, the Chinese app WeChat. \u2014 Dan Bilefsky, New York Times , 5 Jan. 2022",
"Someone received it in the mail and shared it to the social networking app, which connects people in their immediate communities. \u2014 Kaitlyn Bancroft, The Salt Lake Tribune , 21 May 2022"
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"San Francisco issued recommendations for social distancing on Friday, advising residents to stay home as much as possible and avoid congregating in large groups.",
"\u2014 Taryn Luna and Melody Gutierrez",
"Under a new \" social distancing \" strategy, handshaking could be discouraged, with other, less tactile forms of greeting taking its place.",
"\u2014 Rosa Silverman",
"The term social distancing may be foreign to some, but the concept is one often practiced during the flu season, said Dora Anne Mills, the state's former top health official and currently chief health improvement officer for MaineHealth.",
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"But New York can chip away at one\u2019s social network . \u2014 New York Times , 20 Apr. 2022",
"Facebook has such a terrible reputation that the first press conference this week from Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid included a rant directed at the social network . \u2014 Andy Meek, BGR , 18 Aug. 2021",
"The announcement of Simo's exit comes amid some notable changes among the top female executives at the social network . \u2014 Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune , 8 July 2021",
"Twitter's effort at a decentralized social network . \u2014 Shlomo Sprung, Forbes , 27 May 2021",
"Buchheit worked on a few projects at the social network and left. \u2014 Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com , 20 Dec. 2020",
"Along with this, the ID theft protection company also does social network monitoring to catch any impersonation using your social media profiles. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 7 June 2022",
"The survey, conducted by anonymous social network Blind, collected answers from 652 Apple employees from April 13 to 19. \u2014 Chloe Berger, Fortune , 2 May 2022",
"In April 2009, Ashton Kutcher publicly challenged CNN to a race to be the first to reach 1 million followers on the buzzy, three-year-old social network Twitter. \u2014 Will Oremus, Washington Post , 9 Apr. 2022"
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"County officials in December recommended spending $32.3 million in federal grants to make improvements to the center, which also houses county social service programs. \u2014 Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 24 May 2022",
"His official mandate is to connect people who struggle with alcohol and drug abuse, tobacco addiction, and suicidal impulses to the state\u2019s limited social service programs. \u2014 Jose A. Del Real, Washington Post , 23 May 2022",
"And between 50 and 100 locals representing medicine, public health, and social service agencies, non-profits, and churches exchanged information and ideas and then stepped up to help, says Cynthia Walton-Leavitt, a pastor at a church in Oneonta. \u2014 Michael Forster Rothbart, Scientific American , 10 June 2022",
"Their membership is required to include folks from across section of government public service, the medical field, grassroots organizations, social service fields, and others. \u2014 Laura Johnston, cleveland , 7 June 2022",
"Jalil Shabazz, youth program manager at the Northwest Regional Workforce Investment Board, said jobs are available across the board in retail, manufacturing, government, social service agencies and the trades such as carpentry. \u2014 Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant , 6 June 2022",
"That's precisely what happened in Minneapolis, according to James and observers like Vincent Atchity, founder of Care Not Cuffs, which engages departments to focus more on social service and mental health training. \u2014 Eric Ferkenhoff, USA TODAY , 11 Nov. 2021",
"With his package of social service and climate change proposals in the balance, Biden could yet visit Capitol Hill before traveling abroad today. \u2014 Compiled Democrat-gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online , 28 Oct. 2021",
"Founded in the 15th century in the Punjab region of India, Sikhism is a monotheistic religion that emphasizes equality among people and a commitment to social service . \u2014 Shwanika Narayan, San Francisco Chronicle , 12 Sep. 2021"
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"Over subsequent decades, escalating inequality has yielded a significant number of ultrawealthy individuals who heeded Novak\u2019s call to defend capitalism against the depredations of the social gospel . \u2014 Katherine Stewart, The New Republic , 9 Mar. 2021",
"The sermons at Bethany advanced the social gospel , aiming to attract the working poor and the foreign born to a Christian\u2014that is, Protestant\u2014way of living that would help them better themselves in a rapidly industrializing world. \u2014 Marc Levinson, WSJ , 28 Oct. 2018",
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"O\u2019Neal stars as the titular 18th-century Irish rogue and social climber in Stanley Kubrick\u2019s visually ravishing 1975 adaptation of Thackeray\u2019s 19th-century novel. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
"The term first comes up in Our Kind of People during a heated exchange between the rivals Leah (Nadine Ellis) and Angela (Yaya DaCosta); Leah accuses Angela of being a social climber who can\u2019t compare to the island\u2019s elite, of which Leah is a part. \u2014 Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic , 19 Apr. 2022",
"It\u2019s 1978, and Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga), a middle-class social climber who works for her father\u2019s trucking company in Milan, struts through the parking lot with butt-twitching gusto as the truck-crew members wolf whistle at her. \u2014 Owen Gleiberman, Variety , 22 Nov. 2021",
"Rodolfo immediately dismisses Patrizia as a gold digger, a d\u00e9class\u00e9 social climber who can\u2019t tell a Picasso from a Klimt. \u2014 David Sims, The Atlantic , 23 Nov. 2021",
"Prince Harry is a depressed man-child who is married to a social climber . \u2014 Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times , 22 Nov. 2021",
"The space in between provides this shameless social climber a whirlwind tour of all the fame, fortune and romance a modern city can offer. \u2014 Peter Debruge, Variety , 6 Sep. 2021",
"Upon Ramona's return to the table, Sonja responds to the first conversation prompt, which sends her spiraling on a rant about how Ramona is a social climber with no authentic purpose. \u2014 Mary Sollosi, EW.com , 20 Aug. 2021",
"Born into a humble family, this ambitious social climber married the brother of Pope Innocent X. \u2014 Pamela Mccourt Francescone, Travel + Leisure , 17 Mar. 2021"
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"her sociability was called into question when she said she hated parties",
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"The brand understands the importance of having a vehicle that not only connects to performance but also to sociability and lifestyle. \u2014 Corein Carter, Forbes , 21 June 2022",
"Dance, singing and sociability were in the mix now, along with boating, swimming and nature study. \u2014 Hartford Courant , 13 June 2022",
"Labrador retriever ancestry, on the other hand, didn\u2019t seem to have any significant correlation with human sociability . \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"After World War II, a hunger for sociability and a thirst for efficiency led to kitchens that opened to surrounding rooms, with islands holding the appliances as well as the storage space that had gone missing when walls were taken down. \u2014 Julie Lasky, ELLE Decor , 27 Apr. 2022",
"Matrix wanted these spaces to provide safety and sociability , serving as an alternative to homes that were cramped and isolating. \u2014 Divya Subramanian, The Atlantic , 2 May 2022",
"After running the survey data and sequenced DNA through a battery of statistical analyses, Morrill and her co-authors identified 11 genetic regions strongly associated with dog behavior, such as howling frequency and sociability with humans. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 28 Apr. 2022",
"One thing pit bulls did score high on was human sociability , no surprise to anyone who has seen internet videos of lap-loving pit bulls. \u2014 New York Times , 28 Apr. 2022",
"For this project, the researchers asked the owners more than 100 questions relating to everything from a dog\u2019s physical size and color to its sociability and lifestyle. \u2014 Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American , 28 Apr. 2022"
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"Thirty-year-old Ji\u0159\u00ed is a disillusioned dreamer who is gradually becoming more and more sociopathic , trying unsuccessfully to break into the music industry. \u2014 Leo Barraclough, Variety , 25 June 2022",
"Possibly sociopathic and certainly capable of slitting Achilles tendons while lurking under a bed \u2014 smiling all the while \u2014 Comer\u2019s Villanelle was a sui generis TV antiheroine not given to sentimentality. \u2014 Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
"Are their leaders the loudest, most sociopathic members of their hives",
"Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd has played Vikings and vampires, models and marauders, soldiers in the trenches and sociopathic Succession moguls \u2014 even several kinds of royalty, not least of them the King of the Jungle. \u2014 Leah Greenblatt, EW.com , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Certain districts just seem to prefer sociopathic candidates. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 6 Apr. 2022",
"And yet there are plenty of violent shocks and propulsive twists as Jimmy gets more deeply tied up with a vicious Ju\u00e1rez drug cartel and the gleefully sociopathic Lalo Salamanca (a terrifying Tony Dalton). \u2014 NBC News , 18 Apr. 2022",
"Martin\u2019s sociopathic behavior finds a mate in an older, eccentric heiress Helen (Essie Davis), whose obsession with Gilbert and Sullivan operetta creates a problematic private world. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 8 Apr. 2022",
"That's really way more sociopathic than someone who doesn't really have much more control over it and is compelled to put this suit on. \u2014 Jessica Wang, EW.com , 13 Mar. 2022"
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"The exhibition presents 88 oils and watercolors as proof of Homer\u2019s sociopolitical concerns, hinting at a more profound dimension to his art. \u2014 Carol Strickland, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 June 2022",
"In the more recent years of his career, Lamar has settled into a pocket of sociopolitical and personal commentary, using his skill as a storyteller to spark discourse on the troubling state of the world today from his unique vantage point. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 23 May 2022",
"Lane Turner/Globe Staff Very rarely does an artistic endeavor carry this much sociopolitical and civic baggage, such a weight of expectations. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 21 May 2022",
"Exhibit features collection of woodcut prints with a sociopolitical theme. \u2014 Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer , 29 May 2022",
"While certain clerics may prefer socialism, that is only the sociopolitical view of individuals. \u2014 WSJ , 9 May 2022",
"This confuses a sociopolitical concept with a biological one. \u2014 Anna C. F. Lewis, STAT , 4 May 2022",
"But the new show is perhaps the least interested Simon and Pelecanos have seemed in entertaining their audience rather than building their sociopolitical case. \u2014 Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone , 20 Apr. 2022"
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"Indeed, all the world\u2019s proponents of socialized medicine , which includes most of the public-health community, are now lining up to get access to the vaccines that U.S. capitalism delivered. \u2014 Tomas J. Philipson, National Review , 2 Apr. 2021",
"Isn\u2019t the kind of socialized medicine that the U.K. has supposed to be less efficient and more ineffective than ours",
"Despite the apparent perception among Americans that most other countries have socialized medicine , many of them have a mix of private and public options. \u2014 Popular Science , 23 Oct. 2020",
"India has a system of socialized medicine , and government hospitals and research institutions are largely undertaking all Covid-19 response efforts (private hospitals are slowly joining in to keep up with demand). \u2014 Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT , 27 Mar. 2020",
"In socialized medicine the state controls and is all powerful. \u2014 Wesley J. Smith, National Review , 24 Jan. 2020",
"Those of us who favor a single payer system, like Medicare for All, are finding that COVID-19 has suddenly opened a door to discussing socialized medicine . \u2014 Gavin Yamey, Time , 5 Mar. 2020",
"Although Colorado voters rejected a 2018 initiative restricting oil and gas development and a 2016 initiative to foist socialized medicine on the state, versions of these unpopular ideas were signed into law in the 2019 session. \u2014 Krista Kafer, The Denver Post , 26 Dec. 2019",
"Voters want bipartisan action to lower the cost of health care and prescription drugs, not socialized medicine . \u2014 Jennifer Steinhauer, New York Times , 24 Dec. 2019"
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"The restaurant is open to anyone for a casual bite to eat, a glass of wine, or tea and to socialize and relax. \u2014 Madison Rudolf, Washington Post , 18 May 2022",
"Our roommates can come from very different backgrounds, or be at different stages in life, or work and socialize in different worlds from our own. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2022",
"Add some more protein, healthy oils and leafy greens to your diet, and seek out opportunities to socialize with other adults. \u2014 Stephanie H. Murray, The Week , 14 June 2022",
"Our Place Adult Day Care Center, which relocated to 3455 Martin Luther King Dr. in 2003, gave East Side families and caregivers a respite and adults an opportunity to socialize . \u2014 Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News , 3 June 2022",
"While past games offered the opportunity to socialize with other Olympians and explore the host city, restrictive measures to prevent the spread of yet another strain of COVID relegated the athletes to virus-safe spaces. \u2014 Taylore Glynn, Allure , 1 Mar. 2022",
"But the company has seen users slip in the U.S. as pandemic restrictions loosened and consumers regained opportunities to socialize outside of their homes and away from their computers and phones. \u2014 Ann-marie Alc\u00e1ntara, WSJ , 20 Oct. 2021",
"The mother wants her daughter to have more opportunities to socialize this year. \u2014 Lily Altavena, Detroit Free Press , 30 Aug. 2021",
"Along with providing beautiful flowers, the therapeutic classes have built up a spirit of camaraderie, giving residents another chance to socialize . \u2014 Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune , 24 Aug. 2021"
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"Government support falls short Only about 1 in 5 U.S. families with children below the poverty line receive benefits through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the main social welfare program designed to alleviate poverty in that demographic. \u2014 Astraea Augsberger, The Conversation , 18 May 2022",
"Inflation accelerated in the mid-1960s when the Johnson administration pursued greater fiscal spending to finance the Vietnam War and expand social welfare programs, an ambitious initiative known as the Great Society. \u2014 Jeffrey Schulze, Forbes , 16 May 2022",
"The refugees are also eligible to receive social welfare , housing, health care and schooling. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Apr. 2022",
"Even before the current 1988 constitution, which establishes public health as a human right, previous governments ensured labor rights and social welfare for everyone in the country. \u2014 Claudio Araujo, Scientific American , 18 May 2022",
"Ananya Roy is a professor of urban planning, social welfare and geography and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at UCLA. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 9 May 2022",
"His report focused on the economy, social welfare and other domestic issues, in contrast to Tuesday's State of the Union speech by President Joe Biden, which emphasized Russia's attack on Ukraine and international efforts to pressure Putin to stop. \u2014 Joe Mcdonald, ajc , 5 Mar. 2022",
"There is social welfare that really does support women. \u2014 Kira Bindrim, Quartz , 10 May 2022",
"Face coverings are only required in health care and social welfare institutions. \u2014 Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure , 6 May 2022"
"Trans women also face numerous sociological and psychological disadvantages that can affect athletic performance. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 June 2022",
"Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb dissect pop culture through a sociological and psychological lens while also making listeners laugh. \u2014 Alamin Yohannes, EW.com , 25 June 2022",
"The whole film has a certain sociological approach. \u2014 Elsa Keslassy, Variety , 23 May 2022",
"Tocqueville moved thinking about democracy from political to sociological ground. \u2014 Jedediah Britton-purdy, The New Republic , 22 Apr. 2022",
"The idea is based on contact theory, a sociological concept that person-to-person contact can help reduce friction. \u2014 Byadisa Hargett-robinson, ABC News , 22 Apr. 2022",
"Here, though, collaborating with Melissa James Gibson, his eye for sociological detail feels less practiced, as if crossing the Atlantic gave him indulgence to be a bit loose and lazy in his world-building. \u2014 Daniel D'addario, Variety , 13 Apr. 2022",
"The Hood, the show delivered classic gangster flick-level quality every week, bringing the uncompromising gruesomeness and sociological commentary on drug dealing and addiction of the best from the genre. \u2014 Keith Nelson, Men's Health , 8 Apr. 2022",
"For instance, French sociologist \u00c9mile Durkheim used official death statistics in his classic sociological work on suicide in 1897. \u2014 Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics , 4 Apr. 2022"
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