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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
Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Fox News Digital that the two-state solution was never viable but rather a diplomatic reflex.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 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
The system has a cast-frame, 12-inch, pure pulp, cone woofer in a front-firing bass-reflex design.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Fox News Digital that the two-state solution was never viable but rather a diplomatic reflex.
—Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflex
Adjective
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The new findings are confounding scientists’ expectations, raising questions about how exactly molecules can encounter their reactive partners in a teeming, crowded space — and therefore how cells can possibly function.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
18 Feb. 2026
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Social change untethered from moral grounding often becomes reactive and short-lived.—
Irfan Sarwar,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 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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The unconscious Moon is in your 7th House of Bonding alongside unconventional Uranus, and their conjunction could signal upcoming shifts in schedules, needs, or expectations.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
23 Feb. 2026
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She will not be known solely for what was done to her while unconscious.—
Gaby Wood,
Vogue,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Widespread revulsion at the assassination led to a crackdown on the Red Brigades and the beginning of the end of the group’s influence.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
16 Feb. 2026
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Manscaped’s ‘Hair Ballad’ Several ads trafficked in revulsion as an attention-getter, none more so than this one for a body shaver featuring various clumps of removed body hair singing with their little hairy mouths.—
Omar L. Gallaga,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Emerging from a stormy period in Sutkowski’s life, III’s blend of emo, slowcore, and folk works great as a cathartic emotional exercise thanks to its visceral themes and weighty sound, even though the record seldom adds anything new to an ever-evolving emo canon.—
Billie Bugara,
Pitchfork,
10 Feb. 2026
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Unlike body composition metrics, BMI obscures the true extent of metabolic dysfunction and cannot distinguish between muscle and fat — or between superficial fat and the visceral fat that drives diabetes, heart disease and other chronic conditions.—
Bret Scher,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Feb. 2026
Noun
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But Batum missed a potential tying three-pointer, and James got the rebound to secure the win.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb. 2026
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The postpartum rebound, however, was much less prescriptive and more on their own terms.—
Kayla Blanton,
Outside,
13 Feb. 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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One of her favorite things to do during these sleep sojourns is pose personal, even existential questions — probing the mysterious terrain of her own subconscious mind.—
Carolyn Y. Johnson,
Washington Post,
17 Feb. 2026
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On view through March 29, the exhibition traces Lynch’s lifelong dialogue between material experimentation and subconscious imagery, including a series of photographs taken in Berlin in 1999.—
Melinda Sheckells,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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“Reflex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reflex. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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