reactive
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“Caltrans cannot keep being in a reactive phase and then putting the city in a position of covering up for their failures.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
With a long-overdue pivot to a strategy of cost-imposition, we can flip the script and break the cycle of reactive defense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The wide-ranging proposals say reactive action would be insufficient, and online marketplaces would need to "act with due care to prevent, identify and remove dangerous products being sold via their platforms".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
“Whether people are tracking food intake, monitoring sleep or asking about peptide therapies, they’re expressing the same underlying shift: from reactive to proactive,” Jeffrey Egler, Noom’s chief medical officer, said in an email last week.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026
The chemosterilants of this group are alkylating agents, which are extremely reactive chemicals, capable of intense cell destruction, damage to chromosomes, and production of mutations.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Vocabulary lists containing reactive
Chemical Reactions - Introductory
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Matter and Energy 2: Properties of Matter, Chemical Reactions, and Energy
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The State of the Union Address 2015
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