reactive
Example Sentences
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“Caltrans cannot keep being in a reactive phase and then putting the city in a position of covering up for their failures.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
With a long-overdue pivot to a strategy of cost-imposition, we can flip the script and break the cycle of reactive defense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
This lightweight metal is highly reactive, meaning it can quickly undergo chemical reactions.
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 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
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
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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