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

Each year, those firms become more intelligent and more omniscient about the markets, while the market mob becomes more animalistic and less focused on risks taken in pursuit of rewards.

From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025

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

It was a guttural noise, an animalistic noise—

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas