reactive
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In football's savage, reactive world, a deserved defeat at home to a team ranked outside the world's top 50 is bound to attract scrutiny.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The meeting of water and plastic creates a third class of molecules called reactive oxygen species.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
"It didn't affect me at all until I took the last reactive injection, which basically releases the eggs into position for extraction the next day."
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
They can change how reactive oxygen species are produced, alter the behavior of the starting molecules, and even affect whether the finished products remain stable or begin to break down.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 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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