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reactive

[ree-ak-tiv] / riˈæk tɪv /




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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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