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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
Nevin Martell, USA Today, 27 May 2025
Once he’s done that, and before The Entity can launch the nukes, Grace uses her pickpocket reflexes to pull a 5D drive that The Entity uploaded itself into.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 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
Tread carefully across the memory steps, compete in a tense game of marbles, battle as life-sized warships and test your reflexes playing the show’s infamous Red Light, Green Light.
—Nevin Martell, USA Today, 27 May 2025
Once he’s done that, and before The Entity can launch the nukes, Grace uses her pickpocket reflexes to pull a 5D drive that The Entity uploaded itself into.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflex
Adjective
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This reactive approach overlooks strong candidates who bring growth potential.—
Nadia Edwards-Dashti,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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According to the Tylenol team, the move into supplements was strategic in order to be able to offer consumers both reactive support with medication and proactive support with this new product.—
Emily Burns,
Footwear News,
2 June 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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During his new stand-up special, Jamie tearfully recounts his medical emergency that left him being unconscious for 20 days and waking up in a wheelchair.—
Sharareh Drury,
People.com,
2 June 2025
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Authorities found the vehicle’s driver unconscious and not breathing, police said.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
28 May 2025
Noun
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Given teenage revulsion if not denial at the thought of aging, this might be the scariest moment in the entire series.—
Bruce Handy,
Vulture,
20 May 2025
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The recognition of their similarity seems to breed revulsion, not solidarity.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
26 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Friday’s raid was the latest — and perhaps most brazen — attack, not only for its visceral impact on everyday San Diegans, but for its audacious disregard of our most cherished constitutional protections.—
Andrew Nietor,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 June 2025
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The visceral energy of the anger of this guy in a clown suit is the stuff of nightmares.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
Noun
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As of 2024, domestic wine consumption reached 9.76 million hectoliters, a 1.3% increase from the previous year, driven in part by stable prices and a rebound in tourism that bolstered on-premise sales in restaurants and hotels.—
Rachel King,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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Perry picked up a rebound from a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins shot from the point, muscled past Florida’s Eetu Luostarinen in the slot and managed to get the puck past Sergei Bobrovsky to even the game at 4-4.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
7 June 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 13 Jun. 2025.
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