oxymoron
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Because of oxytocin’s role in strengthening social bonds, researchers have considered it as a candidate treatment for autism for more than a decade.
From Scientific American • Oct. 14, 2021
Prolactin, oxytocin’s less-famous sidekick, isn’t only “for milk,” as its name might imply.
From Forbes • Jun. 15, 2015
He was recently profiled by Oliver Burkeman in the Guardian, the latest episode in a long flirtation with the media in which he regularly expounds on oxytocin’s supposed wonders.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2012
And it is not just receiving free money that causes people to feel oxytocin's "warm glow": in other studies Zak has conducted, random windfalls don't cause nearly so much of it to be released.
From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2012
In fact, the discovery of oxytocin's social effects came from studies of two species of voles, one monogamous and one promiscuous.
From Time • Feb. 9, 2011
Vocabulary lists containing oxymoron
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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