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Recent Examples of reflex
Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
In each case, there's a recognition that some players might want to explore a game's world—to experience the characters, art, and dialogue that the developers worked so hard to craft—without struggling through mechanical reflex tests or grindy, repetitive challenges.
—ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2025
Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
In her view, that reflex has contributed to growing social and economic friction, slowing progress on issues that require cooperation rather than alignment around a single viewpoint.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
But largely absent from the show was a pain management disorder – reflex neurovascular dystrophy, also known as complex regional pain syndrome – that Sioux has dealt with for much of her life.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
In each case, there's a recognition that some players might want to explore a game's world—to experience the characters, art, and dialogue that the developers worked so hard to craft—without struggling through mechanical reflex tests or grindy, repetitive challenges.
—ArsTechnica, 9 Oct. 2025
Noun
When empathy is framed as weakness and equality as provocation, anger becomes a reflex.
—Jodi Bondi Norgaard, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
In her view, that reflex has contributed to growing social and economic friction, slowing progress on issues that require cooperation rather than alignment around a single viewpoint.
—Daniel Fusch, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflex
Adjective
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Ultimately, these applications of AI enable finance to shift from a reactive function to a proactive function, Mittal adds.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
1 Apr. 2026
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Those efforts reflect a broader goal of shifting from reactive support to sustained community development.—
J.M. Banks
March 31,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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David asks whether the country can find a way back from a dangerous moral and political impasse, as a majority of Americans recoil from these actions while a determined minority continue to defend them.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
28 Jan. 2026
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Fans recoil at the idea of betrayal.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano, a 52-year-old father and Los Angeles resident, died Wednesday, March 25 after being found unconscious and unresponsive inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, ICE officials stated in a news release.—
Ryanne Mena,
Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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One security officer was struck by the vehicle and briefly knocked unconscious but did not suffer life‑threatening injuries.—
Andrew Stanton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Dahl’s revulsion at the violence committed in Israel’s name is at once comprehensible, in and of itself, and rooted in Dahl’s set of antisemitic beliefs.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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The scene plays out as if the actors are politely averting their eyes while performing, without conjuring the deep moral revulsion Wolfe and LaChiusa might’ve intended.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Satellite imagery turned the abstract threat into visceral geography — terrifying technicolor maps showed a deep purple bruise spreading over the South Pole.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
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Clueless to the format of the (very real) interview show (answering questions while eating ever-increasing spicy hot wings), Cherish’s exasperation, befuddlement, and visceral agony is a comic wonder to watch.—
Jennifer Silverman,
Rolling Stone,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Tatum registered his ninth assist less than three minutes after halftime and pulled down his 10th rebound just past the midway point of the third quarter.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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The return to work in March of about 31,000 striking Kaiser Permanente health care workers accounts for some of the rebound.—
Rachel Barber,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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When the needle finally drops, the effect is Pavlovian.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
25 July 2025
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The result is a political Pavlovian response where even modest tax reforms come with a side of millionaire exodus think-pieces.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
20 July 2025
Adjective
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Your subconscious may call the shots during the first quarter moon in Cancer.—
USA TODAY,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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To really pick at this raw nerve, Menzies returns to narrate these passages from Frank’s book and taunt Jamie’s subconscious.—
Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2026
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“Reflex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reflex. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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