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  • I admired how gregarious she was, how engaged with the world, how amusing and spontaneous—"little feather-head!" as Hobie called her, with a great deal of tenderness —what a breath of fresh air she was!†   (source)
  • Daddy's favorite was Walter, the most fun-loving and gregarious of his brothers.†   (source)
  • They are gregarious and thrive in crowded cities.†   (source)
  • He was gregarious, full of energy, and made jokes about his predicament.†   (source)
  • He's just this phenomenal ball of positive energy; completely physical and gregarious.†   (source)
  • She says he wanted an old-fashioned woman, not a successful and gregarious entrepreneur like her mother, Flo.†   (source)
  • There were times when he visited taverns near campus and allowed himself to act gregarious and animated in the manner of younger students.†   (source)
  • It might, almost, for strange barbarity of manner and custom, for the sense of danger and horror barely sleeping beneath the rough, gregarious surface, have been some impenetrably exotic city of the East.†   (source)
  • Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.†   (source)
  • Charming, gregarious, and handsome as the devil.†   (source)
  • Robert hesitated, then walked past Caroline, all his gregarious enthusiasm evaporated.†   (source)
  • Rabbits are lively at nightfall, and when evening rain drives them underground they still feel gregarious.†   (source)
  • As our transaction proceeds, I ask him all gregarious-like, what news of the Empire or the king-may he rot with gangrene and trench mouth.†   (source)
  • Unlike Kim, who'd been outgoing and gregarious, he'd always been more reticent and blended into crowds.†   (source)
  • He heard a radio playing round the next bend and decided to follow the sound, music, sweetness, strings, his head clear and his bladder empty, the ever gregarious Albert, curious to see what sort of company he might encounter here.†   (source)
  • She was strong-minded and gregarious.†   (source)
  • But Harlon was good-looking and gregarious and attracted the attention of the girls.†   (source)
  • She appeared to be gregarious and fun-loving.†   (source)
  • He'd known Seth for many years and he was not the slightest bit gregarious.†   (source)
  • He was gregarious, jovial, quick of mind, highly energetic— "very fat, but very active" — and all of twenty-five.†   (source)
  • Nina is a child of enormous charm, sweet and gregarious.†   (source)
  • Our loud, gregarious group enjoyed our time with Colt Brennan, Darren McFadden, Chase Daniel, and their families—they were great.†   (source)
  • Max's predecessor, Antonio de Lorca, had been gregarious and charming, but he seemed to be an exception.†   (source)
  • The gregarious Johnson has stifled his personality, disciplining himself to be completely silent in meetings in order to avoid offending the president.†   (source)
  • "Fashion leaders are concentrated among young women of high gregariousness," Labov says, calling the linguistic changes he has studied "the audible equivalent of the visual effects of fashion."†   (source)
  • The Bellatis were as social and gregarious as the Giulianis were not.†   (source)
  • Jon was coming to know them despite himself: gaunt, quiet Errok and gregarious Grigg the Goat, the boys Quort and Bodger, Hempen Dan the ropemaker.†   (source)
  • The gregarious governor was quiet.†   (source)
  • Walking toward the house, he wondered at this change in people and concluded that man was a naturally gregarious creature and they were all starved for companionship and the sight of new faces.†   (source)
  • For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude.†   (source)
  • Yet, by placing myself on Yamacraw, I was denying my natural gregariousness and my compulsive need for good friends.†   (source)
  • Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx.†   (source)
  • She was so satisfied with her work, where she felt sufficient and capable; with her friends, whom she relied on; with her life at the club, which was as pleasant and as gregarious as being in a giant twittering aviary, where there was always the excitement of other people's engagements and weddings; and with her men friends, who treated her just like a good pal, with none of this silly sex business.†   (source)
  • he is a gregarious person who avoids solitude
  • Gregarious by nature, Hall proved to be a skillful raconteur with a caustic Kiwi wit.†   (source)
  • Gregarious and good-looking, kind to a fault, Lopsang was exiremely cocky yet hugely appealing.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Simulation Systems was located in Columbus, and so was their main OASIS server vault.†   (source)
  • He'd done it on an original Pac-Man machine located in the Gregarious Games break room.†   (source)
  • When Gregarious Games finally went public, their stock immediately shot into the stratosphere.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Simulation Systems elevated the MMO concept to an entirely new level.†   (source)
  • Word began to spread that Gregarious Games was in danger of going bankrupt.†   (source)
  • He was, for example, gregarious and intensely social.†   (source)
  • Of all our children, she is the most gregarious, and her laughter sounds the same as Jane's.†   (source)
  • As the American launched into the particulars of his near success, the Count was inevitably reminded of Richard, who was almost as wide-eyed as Webster, equally gregarious, and just as ready to tell a humorous tale at his own expense.†   (source)
  • They stayed with Kousay, Abdulrahman's wonderfully life-loving and gregarious brother, who still lived in their childhood home.†   (source)
  • She is much more gregarious than Chris was and can't imagine going off into the wilderness, or virtually anywhere else, alone.†   (source)
  • He who was too gregarious, who spoke too much and too ardently desired the company of others, their conversation and their laughter, did not have what life required.†   (source)
  • Fischer, forty, was a strapping, gregarious man with a blond pony tail and a surfeit of manic energy.†   (source)
  • Like the American correspondents, jazz seemed a naturally gregarious force—one that was a little unruly and prone to say the first thing that popped into its head, but generally of good humor and friendly intent.†   (source)
  • When the Count arrived at the Shalyapin at six o'clock that night, the denizens of the bar were celebrating the misadventures of "Pudgy" Webster, a gregarious if somewhat hapless American who had recently arrived in the capital.†   (source)
  • Raw and emotional, disinclined toward introspection, he had the kind of gregarious, magnetic personality that instantly won him friends for life; hundreds of individualsincluding some he'd met just once or twice-considered him a bosom buddy.†   (source)
  • Once my identity was verified, the Gregarious Simulation Systems logo appeared in front of me, followed by the log-in prompt.†   (source)
  • As you know, Gregarious Simulation Systems keeps all OASIS user records confidential, so we have no way of knowing their true identities.†   (source)
  • In 1990, Gregarious Games moved into its first real office, located in a run-down strip mall in Columbus, Ohio.†   (source)
  • When they both graduated from high school, Kira returned to the States, moved in with Morrow, and became one of Gregarious Games' first employees.†   (source)
  • Morrow and Halliday decided to start their own videogame company, Gregarious Games, which initially operated out of Morrow's basement.†   (source)
  • For this reason, IOI had attempted several hostile takeovers of Gregarious Simulation Systems, all of which had failed.†   (source)
  • Charging people for virtual fuel to power their virtual spaceships was one of the ways Gregarious Simulation Systems generated revenue, since accessing the OASIS was free.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Games set a new standard for immersive gaming, and every time they released a new title, it pushed the envelope of what seemed possible on the computer hardware available at the time.†   (source)
  • During the mid-'90s, back when Gregarious Simulation Systems was still just Gregarious Games, Morrow had moved in with his high-school sweetheart, Kira Underwood.†   (source)
  • Gregarious Simulation Systems was located less than a mile away, so I was able to use one of their complimentary wireless access points instead of one of the city nodes owned by IOI.†   (source)
  • I kept running, farther and farther down, until I reached the Gregarious Simulation Systems Museum, which was located just a few levels above the planet core.†   (source)
  • At every Gregarious Games press conference, Morrow grinned infectiously from behind his unruly beard and wire-rimmed spectacles, using his natural gift for hype and hyperbole.†   (source)
  • Your real name, fingerprints, and retinal patterns were stored in your OASIS account, but Gregarious Simulation Systems kept that information encrypted and confidential.†   (source)
  • People employed by Gregarious Games during this period say that Halliday frequently locked himself in his office, where he programmed incessantly, often going without food, sleep, or human contact for days or even weeks.†   (source)
  • Rumors began to circulate that Gregarious Games was developing some sort of new computer gaming hardware and that this secret project was rapidly exhausting the company's considerable financial resources.†   (source)
  • Then, in December 2012, Gregarious Games rebranded itself as Gregarious Simulation Systems, and under this new banner they launched their flagship product, the only product GSS would ever release: the OASIS—the Ontologically Anthropocentric Sensory Immersive Simulation.†   (source)
  • Morrow reminded the reporter that the contest rules laid out in Halliday's will stated that no one who had ever worked for Gregarious Simulation Systems, or anyone in their immediate families, was eligible to take part in the contest.†   (source)
  • My entire estate, including a controlling share of stock in my company, Gregarious Simulation Systems, is to be placed in escrow until such time as a single condition I have set forth in my will is met.†   (source)
  • General Thomas Lafayette Rosser, a gregarious twenty-eight-year-old Texan, gallops his cavalry into Rice's Station.†   (source)
  • Peale, a new star in the Philadelphia firmament, young, gifted, gregarious, was also a wholehearted patriot who only days earlier had signed on as a common soldierin a company of local militia.†   (source)
  • Her husband, Kenneth, a history teacher at East Carteret High School who by all accounts was a gregarious, friendly guy, spent his days at the hospital.†   (source)
  • Sunny was somewhat cross with me when we arrived at the store, me bearing the bulging bags of his things and Tommy, drooling and gregarious, methodically aiming his special noise-and-lightmaking pistol at the Lerner's customers.†   (source)
  • Black-headed gulls are gregarious.†   (source)
  • Among the orphans Max had met in Blys, Claudia was the natural leader—a bold and gregarious child who was always inventing new games and activities.†   (source)
  • She, too, was a patron of the bookstore, a correspondingly plump, gregarious young woman named Lucy Flucker, whose father, Thomas Flucker, was the royal secretary of the province.†   (source)
  • He could never have imagined her in this moment, so gregarious and at ease, launching a party she had orchestrated down to the very last detail.†   (source)
  • For it seemed perfectly logical to me that the Winston Hunnicutts, this vivid and gregarious young couple (whose garden-level living room, incidentally, afforded me a jealous glimpse of Danish-modern shelves jammed with books), had the enormous good fortune to inhabit a world populated by writers and poets and critics and other literary types; and thus on these evenings as the twilight softly fell and the terrace began to fill with chattering, beautifully dressed sophisticates, I…†   (source)
  • There was in him no toilsome web that might have checked him, no balancing or restraining weight—he had enormous energy, hungry gregariousness, the passion to pool his life.†   (source)
  • They do plenty of snubbing on their own, but just let someone who's snubbed them all her life suddenly break down and turn gregarious—and they all come rolling on their backs with their paws folded, for you to rub their bellies.†   (source)
  • Young lady, I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night.†   (source)
  • Because we are gregarious we live in society, and society holds together by means of force, force of arms (that is the policeman) and force of public opinion (that is Mrs. Grundy).†   (source)
  • The books on the table were unspotted and laid in rigid parallels; not one corner of the carpet-rug was curled; and nowhere was there a hockey-stick, a torn picture-book, an old cap, or a gregarious and disorganizing dog.†   (source)
  • It was so that the gregarious animals had overcome the predaceous; it was so, in human history, that the people had mastered the kings.†   (source)
  • …not public spirited, only patriotic; not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering; not self-controlled, only obtuse; not self-respecting, only vain; not kind, only sentimental; not social, only gregarious; not considerate, only polite; not intelligent, only opinionated; not progressive, only factious; not imaginative, only superstitious; not just, only vindictive; not generous, only propitiatory; not disciplined, only cowed; and not…†   (source)
  • Dimensions (by estimation)—Greatest length, eleven feet; height, six feet; head, erect; nostrils, expansive; eyes, expressive and fierce; teeth, serrated and abundant; tail, horizontal, waving, and slightly feline; feet, large and hairy; talons, long, curvated, dangerous; ears, inconspicuous; horns, elongated, diverging, and formidable; colour, plumbeous-ashy, with fiery spots; voice, sonorous, martial, and appalling; habits, gregarious, carnivorous, fierce, and fearless.†   (source)
  • They both looked to the right and to the left into most of the shops they passed, had a wary eye for all gregarious assemblages of people, and turned out of their road to avoid any very excited group of talkers.†   (source)
  • The Fin-Back is not gregarious.†   (source)
  • Even now I am certain that those seas are not, and perhaps never can be, in the present constitution of things, a place for his habitual gregarious resort.†   (source)
  • "I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night," he repeated, "and that is why I sent for you: the fire and the chandelier were not sufficient company for me; nor would Pilot have been, for none of these can talk.†   (source)
  • Though the gregarious sperm whales have their regular seasons for particular grounds, yet in general you cannot conclude that the herds which haunted such and such a latitude or longitude this year, say, will turn out to be identically the same with those that were found there the preceding season; though there are peculiar and unquestionable instances where the contrary of this has proved true.†   (source)
  • The hypergregarious Ira Volker passes by from a neighboring table, doing a random survey of who's drinking milk versus soda.†   (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hypergregarious means extremely or excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
  • Even Zeina Mobassaleh, the hypergregarious girl from Holton-Arms School in D.C. who's sort of like the unit's social director, has vanished into something called the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, one of the big Arab groups.†   (source)
  • People are gregarious by necessity.†   (source)
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