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Recent Examples of reflex
Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Cherry Venice' With its bright red reflex flowers, this heirloom variety is like the cherry on top of your fall garden.
—Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2025
Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Photography equipment While a camera phone can be suitable in the right situation, a professional DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera will greatly expand your creative options.
—Mike De Sisti, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
That listen-then-adapt reflex repeats across states, which is why programs feel relevant in one village today and repeatable in a new district tomorrow.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Cherry Venice' With its bright red reflex flowers, this heirloom variety is like the cherry on top of your fall garden.
—Mike Irvine, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
That listen-then-adapt reflex repeats across states, which is why programs feel relevant in one village today and repeatable in a new district tomorrow.
—Afdhel Aziz, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Photography equipment While a camera phone can be suitable in the right situation, a professional DSLR (digital single lens reflex) camera will greatly expand your creative options.
—Mike De Sisti, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reflex
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What Happens Next Given Greene’s prominence and the reactive nature of political discourse within the GOP, further divisions could shape Republican dynamics ahead of the next election cycle.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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By catching vulnerabilities early and offering precise fixes, Aardvark could shift cybersecurity from reactive defense to continuous, proactive protection.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The rifle weighs up to 120 pounds with massive muzzle brakes, producing more than 200 foot-pounds of recoil.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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This isn’t just adding parts to guns to increase damage or lessen recoil either; there’s room for some really funky experiments provided the right items are found.—
Jason Fanelli,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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After ambushing Fuller at her mansion, Teddy and his accomplice/cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) knock her unconscious with a tranquilizer and load her into the backseat of her own car.—
Lauren Huff,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Oct. 2025
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Westerman’s Toyota minivan was discovered lying on its roof about 30 feet deep in Monterey Bay, and rescue swimmers broke a window to pull him out, unconscious.—
Ethan Baron,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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Even House Speaker Mike Johnson, who otherwise has humored Trump at every turn, has expressed revulsion at the idea of a pardon.—
Robin Abcarian,
Mercury News,
29 Oct. 2025
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The move follows widespread public revulsion over the attacks in the UK.—
Sophie Tanno,
CNN Money,
2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The jury especially liked the way the dialogue’s shift in volume and tone established the visceral experience of the main character — deeply rooting the audience inside Drea’s perspective.—
Christian Blauvelt,
IndieWire,
24 Oct. 2025
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Auerbach's book is genuinely horrifying, resurrecting that visceral terror of 'stranger-danger' most of us learned as kids.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
22 Oct. 2025
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Antetokounmpo came up with the offensive rebound, but LaVine stripped the ball from his hands as time expired.—
Jason Anderson,
Sacbee.com,
2 Nov. 2025
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Rate cuts and some greater clarity around trade deals and tariffs were supposed to fuel a rebound in hiring heading into 2026, noted Nicole Bachaud, labor economist at employment site ZipRecruiter.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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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But André, who Bonitzer has named after the early surrealist André-Aimé-René Masson, soon confronts our man with a situation that — at least on some distant subconscious level — forces him to re-evaluate his metrics.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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How have your subconscious patterns, intuitive nudges, and quiet obsessions shaped your motivations lately?—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
26 Oct. 2025
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“Reflex.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reflex. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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