reactive
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The catalyst first activates oxygen, producing highly reactive species.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Our cost crisis stems not from demographic inevitability, but from a reactive “you break it, we fix it” paradigm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
“This means higher economic volatility and a more reactive monetary policy environment as inflation ebbs and flows,” they added.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
That could have made playing a highly reactive character like Carol therapeutic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
He’d thought it was some property of the metal that it was reactive with skin, but he was the only one who had reacted to it.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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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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