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react

[ree-akt] / riˈækt /


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When heat and sunlight react with airborne emissions from wildfires, vehicles and industry, they create ground-level ozone pollution, which can damage lung tissue, cause breathing problems, trigger asthma attacks and lead to other health issues.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Wide receiver Christian Watson told reporters “it’s tough” to hear the home fans react in such a manner, but he gets it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Yet that was a restrained debate, locked into hypotheticals about how Iran might react if the country’s security was further threatened.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

But if you’re older and your baseline anxiety and stress level is already high, you’re more apt to react emotionally to fraudsters’ ploys.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

All react with little empathy and seem to find emotion a foreign language.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

When someone loses weight, the body reacts as if it were a threat to survival.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The Tesla’s cameras can see jaywalkers before I do, oncoming headlights don’t blind it, and the car reacts faster than I can.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The chemical deployed by Wallace during her investigation reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026

As that acidic water reacts with certain rocks -- limestone, for instance -- it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

That kind of training, conducted over and over again, in combination with real-world experience, fundamentally changes the way a police officer reacts to a violent encounter.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

And so at the Humanoid Games, when one robot sprinter reacted to the starting gun by sitting down, then lying on its back and gazing at the sky, viewers saw a fellow casualty of burnout.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

Dale Mosher, his father, said he typically reacted poorly to the flu vaccine when he was required to get it while in the military.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

At ORNL, Luke Daemen used neutron scattering to help identify the hydrocarbon products created when different polymer chains reacted.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Chicago Bears fans also probably reacted with similar words when star quarterback Caleb Williams was carted off the field with a hamstring injury.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Oddly, it was even-tempered Betsie who reacted most strongly, hurtling from her chair and flinging herself at the radio to shut off the sound.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"I don't know how somebody can get pleasure out of somebody not reacting, and that was the thing that just did not make sense to me," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Although past performance isn’t a guarantee of how things might play out in the future, analysts at BofA Global Research believe investors have been reacting to the wrong metric.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Sundays are for reacting, and any amount of thinking is overthinking.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Manning has plenty of defenders, arguing that this a kerfuffle about nothing, that Manning is a college kid reacting like a college kid to a fake video of something that didn’t happen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

It might give them the most disastrous ideas about the subject, might upset them into reacting in the entirely wrong, the utterly antisocial way.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley




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