knee-jerk reaction
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Since the faces on display are unusually eclectic, the knee-jerk reaction is to fear the movie is making fun of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
Asia’s tech selloff looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the headline, analysts said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Lying on a sunbed, it can be easy to fantasise about quitting everything and retraining as a scuba diver instructor or yoga teacher, but Carr warns against a "knee-jerk reaction".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
Investors had a knee-jerk reaction, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rising to 4.23%, its highest settlement level since Sept. 2.
From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 2026
They didn’t just have a knee-jerk reaction to immediately respond to the text.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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