Example Sentences

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Many scholars have suggested that stable pair bonding helped fuel the cooperation that allowed humans to thrive globally.

From Science Daily • Jan. 22, 2026

Disparate as their ages may be, Margot and Sammy soon come to develop a friendship that expands beyond the role of mentor/mentee, with the pair bonding over their shared experiences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2022

For example, infusing oxytocin into the brains of a female, non-monogamous prairie vole accelerates pair bonding, and infusing vasopressin does the same for male prairie voles.

From Salon • May 31, 2021

Nope, sorry, monogamy is an evolutionary feature of our species, specifically in the form of a built-in, relatively modern behavioral strategy known to anthropologists and sociologists as ‘long term pair bonding’.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2018

Their periphescence existed simultaneously with a less passionate stage of pair bonding.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides