react
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Future characters could remember past encounters, react to a player's actions and build relationships that change over time rather than following a pre-written script.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Who doesn’t react to getting older and more removed from the engine of culture with an initial feeling that the next generation is doing it wrong?
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
Plastics were long thought to be chemically inert, meaning they don’t react easily with other compounds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
For now, it’s important to pay attention to how bonds react to the news than to the news itself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Was Fat Cheeks patient because he was the chief and too dignified to react?
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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Roy Keane: Foden gets up and reacts obviously, so he's sent off.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It is then converted into sulfuric acid, which reacts with mined phosphate rock to produce phosphoric acid used to make phosphate fertilizers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The chemical deployed by Wallace during her investigation reacts with the iron in hemoglobin, a protein found in red blood cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
As that acidic water reacts with certain rocks -- limestone, for instance -- it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
For a moment he reacts as he would have reacted just yesterday, before we had the fight.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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Albania's close ally the United States reacted late Saturday.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
For example, some agents reacted to sounds or recognized the emotional states of others.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Reyes believes the pair agitated the dog, who reacted in self-defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Shortly afterwards, Pillay reacted to the news by saying "it must be a joke" and thanked those who had gathered to applaud her.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
Though Hoover conceded that some might deem him a “fanatic,” he reacted with fury to any violations of the rules.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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At the same time, water molecules surrounding the reacting molecules constantly shift and reorganize in ways that are notoriously difficult to observe directly.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
"I was just reacting to what was going on," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
“At least someone is reacting to surging energy prices and interest rates.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Although past performance isn’t a guarantee of how things might play out in the future, analysts at BofA Global Research believe investors have been reacting to the wrong metric.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
And I knew that my reacting as I did presented no conflict with the convictions of brotherhood which I had gained in the Holy Land.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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