reflexive

Example Sentences

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Guilt rises in me hard and fast and I feel my head bobbing up and down reflexively, trying to diffuse a situation that’s going downhill fast.

From Literature

It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal

Over the past few years, investors have been conditioned to reflexively buy the dip in stocks during periods of geopolitical stress.

From MarketWatch

I jerked back reflexively, but it was too late.

From Literature

But Chip’s need for connection and reflexive sense of entitlement proves disastrous — the story isn’t going the way he wanted, and Groff allows it to collapse on him.

From Los Angeles Times