reactive

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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 ability to create and maintain reactive intermediate molecules in water also brings scientists closer to replicating the chemistry that naturally occurs inside living cells, which are mostly composed of water.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026

Given how unpredictable the war is likely to be in coming weeks, there could be pockets of opportunity when headlines cause reactive selloffs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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