reflex
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Like a teenage reflex, I sprinted to the comments to see what people were saying.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
This time, gold showed both its reflex and its restraint.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026
Stuttgart 'keeper Alexander Nuebel ensured the hosts claimed all three points with a superb reflex save from Bruno Ogbus in stoppage time.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
It becomes activated as the baby stretches these tissues, triggering a neural reflex that boosts uterine contractions.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe—his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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