reactive
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“I tried to invest in learning as a proactive thing as opposed to a reactive thing,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Under former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, for instance, bond markets tended to be more reactive to his press conferences rather than the policy bias from statements by the Federal Open Market Committee.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
That could have made playing a highly reactive character like Carol therapeutic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hernández Sánchez proposed that if lanthanides could bind oxygen in the right way, they might produce highly reactive lanthanide oxo compounds.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 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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