Example Sentences

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The second most important predictor was noncognitive skills—traits like resilience, self-esteem and conscientiousness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The result is a vicious circle: family disruption perpetuates disadvantage by creating barriers to the development of cognitive and noncognitive skills, which in turn sharply reduces access to college.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

Attending high school gives students more opportunities to learn such noncognitive skills, he said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2015

So the idea of endowing my children with names that would force them to bite their tongues and thereby raise their noncognitive IQs was appealing to me.

From Salon • Mar. 22, 2014

Without anyone realizing it, the coding test was measuring a critical noncognitive skill that mattered a lot in the grown-up world.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2012