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Recent Examples of reflex
Manuel Veth, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
It’s got two midrange drivers, two tweeters, and bass reflex ports to bring depth to your music and movies.
—Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
And the next time someone disagrees with you, resist the reflex to defend—and get curious instead.
—John Rex, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Adjective
The reflex reaction would be to suggest that without Stiller and Goretzka, Germany lost control in midfield.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
It’s got two midrange drivers, two tweeters, and bass reflex ports to bring depth to your music and movies.
—Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
Pair every sprint in code with a sprint in conscience: workshops on algorithmic literacy, bias reflexes and the socio-emotional muscles that turn raw aspiration into altruistic intention.
—Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
And the next time someone disagrees with you, resist the reflex to defend—and get curious instead.
—John Rex, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflex
Adjective
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Many professionals often sense it as a creeping loss of perspective—when enthusiasm fades, originality wanes and decision making becomes reactive.—
Rob Robinson,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
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Expert advice Lithium-ion batteries, which are used in power banks, are filled with materials which are highly reactive and highly flammable, according to Sonya Brown, senior lecturer in aerospace design at the University of New South Wales in Australia.—
Francesca Street,
CNN Money,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Such interactions between black holes or neutron stars (compact remnants of exploded massive stars) can be studied through the deflection angle, the energy released through the near miss and the momentum of the objects’ recoil—all of which may be discerned in gravitational waves.—
Ramin Skibba,
Scientific American,
13 May 2025
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This disruption of the sextet sets the rest of the story in motion, as everyone reacts and recoils, prompted to judge one another and themselves.—
Margaret Lyons,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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However, once again, Indiana found some magic behind Aaron Nesmith's 20-point fourth quarter and unconscious three-point shooting and came back to force overtime on a Haliburton step-back jumper that bounced high off of the rim and fell down through.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 May 2025
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When teens begin dying in their dreams—each claimed by a disfigured man with a glove of knives—the boundary between waking life and unconscious terror erodes.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
21 May 2025
Noun
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The recognition of their similarity seems to breed revulsion, not solidarity.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
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They’re made to live as subjects of revulsion by day and secret objects of desire by night, all while risking sudden turns toward brutality born from vulnerable self-loathing.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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For many nations on the continent, the need for the EU is visceral.—
Mark Sappenfield,
Christian Science Monitor,
22 May 2025
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The objects on view are visceral, drawing us into three decades of Elster’s creative practices.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Jalen Brunson had 31 points on 19 field goal attempts, and Karl-Anthony Towns had 24 points and 12 rebounds.—
Dan Santaromita,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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Jalen Williams added 19 points and eight rebounds for the Thunder.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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Drivers build lives around parking: the work shifts altered to align with the alternate-side-rotation hours, the keys always in the pocket, the Pavlovian alertness at the chirp of an unlocking car.—
Zach Helfand,
New Yorker,
5 May 2025
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After a decade, my body reacts in a Pavlovian way to its stimuli, the scroll of torsos, the dopamine of a red dot notification, a three-toned beep that perks you up in your chair.—
Mathew Rodriguez,
Them,
11 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Mercury trine Pluto encourages you to dig deep into your subconscious mind and explore what’s lingering beneath the surface.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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The downside is that there is a potential conflict of interest since there can be a subconscious propensity to want the AI to be a success.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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“Reflex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reflex. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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