knee jerk

Example Sentences

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"Everyone recognizes there is a growing antibiotic resistance crisis, and the knee jerk reaction is to develop new antibiotics," You added.

From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024

Unite's deputy regional secretary, Davy Thompson, said minimum service levels are "the most invidious example of knee jerk legislating this country has seen in a long time".

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

“The knee jerk pullback in the euro/dollar suggests some were positioned for something more hawkish from the ECB,” Societe Generale currency strategist Kenneth Broux, said.

From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2022

“I feel changing it because of criminal activity is a knee jerk rection and it’s not going to change anything,” she said last week.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The loss of the knee jerk is always observed in time.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson