How to Use territoriality in a Sentence
territoriality
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On the other hand, nobody said territoriality would be free of guardrails.
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Robert Goulder,
Forbes,
4 Oct. 2021
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Either way, maybe this more subtle type of territoriality could help explain how early humans handled their own turf.
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Leslie Nemo,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2020
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The study cited territoriality — a person with a bumper sticker may regard his car as an extension of his home turf which must be defended.
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Mary Wisniewski,
chicagotribune.com,
11 June 2017
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That’s because territoriality is a major stressor among cats.
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Dr. Patty Khuly,
miamiherald,
14 May 2018
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The formation was seen to deal with problems resulting from the lack of agreement on contract ownership, salaries, territoriality, and other issues.
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David Buie,
baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll,
24 Apr. 2021
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Davies sees the criticism as largely rooted in territoriality and financial concerns.
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Jessica Wapner,
Newsweek,
17 July 2017
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Those records were essential to end any territoriality dispute between Denmark and America.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
15 Feb. 2022
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The territoriality Baggett gave voice to is perhaps a by-product of fatigue from the museum's long gestation and residents' fear of erasure in a community where so many memories have been bulldozed.
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Maya Dukmasova,
Chicago Reader,
5 July 2017
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While the basics of coyote hunting are simple—set up with visibility and minimize movement; keep the wind in your face or crossing; call in dogs by appealing to their stomach, territoriality, or libido—success hinges on the details.
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Toby Walrath,
Outdoor Life,
25 Jan. 2021
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Overall, however, the results of this study suggest that factors such as familiarity and territoriality may be playing a bigger role than spectator support, Memmert says.
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Diana Kwon,
Scientific American,
31 Mar. 2021
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There’s no territoriality here.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Instead of tackling the usual staples like hierarchy, territoriality, simmering violence and payback, this is primarily a reflection on care work as a gift to the bestower as much as the receiver.
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David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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Other, less privacy and territoriality-minded countries, have cabanas, which are essentially vast sunbeds of conviviality.
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Sarah Turner,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2021
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Chimpanzee warfare is of particular interest because of the possibility that both humans and chimps inherited an instinct for aggressive territoriality from their joint ancestor who lived some five million years ago.
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Andrew Moseman,
Discover Magazine,
22 June 2010
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The Congress that granted territoriality to Puerto Rico?
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Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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And, really liked the chapter on Rei Kawakubo — artistic clothing design, like tattoo, is an up-and-coming art territoriality and cultural heritage headed for (if not already at) the most prestigious museums of the world.
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Bruce Sterling,
WIRED,
10 Jan. 2011
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Of particular concern is the principle of territoriality, the idea that producers and rights holders can sign agreements with companies in different European countries to give them exclusive local rights to a film or TV series.
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Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 June 2017
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By designating the rocky outcrop as a cemetery, the people who buried their dead there were demonstrating territoriality, a type of social behavior typically associated with the start of agriculture nearly 12,000 years ago.
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Mindy Weisberger,
CNN Money,
28 Aug. 2025
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Sometime around the 14th century, southern New England Indians added corn-beans-squash horticulture to their subsistence, spurring population growth and territoriality.
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National Geographic,
19 Nov. 2020
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