animalistic
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“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Some take animalistic forms, looking like out-of-control piñatas.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2025
Potrykus makes a psychologically revealing meal out of every nervous interjection of Derek’s until they become animalistic and eventually sorrowful.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025
Sigmund Freud thought it related to animalistic behavior and was relevant in humans mostly in terms of behavioral pathology.
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025
Her breath was ragged, animalistic, the opposite of pretty.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
