the social

noun

British, somewhat informal

: money provided by a government program to people who are unable to work because they are old, disabled, or unemployed

He's living on the social now.

Examples of the social in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Here’s why the U.S. is forcing the social media platform to be sold or banned. —

Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 19 May 2024 Elon Musk is retiring the last vestige of Twitter — the twitter.com web address — as the social network has fully moved over to the x.com domain name. —

Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 May 2024 Reddit and OpenAI have struck a licensing agreement to use content from the social media platform to train its products, including its chatbot ChatGPT. —

Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 17 May 2024 Keating said the Chicago office is primarily the engineering division for the social networking app. —

Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 16 May 2024 OpenAI unveiled a partnership with Reddit Inc. that will bring the social network’s content to chatbot ChatGPT and other products, and allow Reddit to add new artificial intelligence features to its online communities. —

Aisha Counts, Fortune, 16 May 2024 Threads is getting third-party fact checkers to review some of its content to help identify misinformation, false conspiracies, and fake news on the social media platform. —

Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 15 May 2024 As part of the social justice movement, our business choices should promote drug war reform. —

Summer Westerbur, Rolling Stone, 13 May 2024 According to the social media post, the first suspect is a man, 18-25 years old, around 6-foot-2 and weighing about 175 pounds. —

Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024

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