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spontaneous reaction

noun as in unthought-out response

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“I got interested in what exactly triggers blushing - is it thinking about what other people think of us, or is it more an automatic and spontaneous reaction to social exposure?” she asked.

From BBC

He says his gesture was a "spontaneous" reaction borne out of frustration, and not something he imagined would blow up.

From BBC

"I took Malhar along because it was Sunday, a day I usually spend with him. He'd been playing outside for over half an hour when he spotted me on the dais and came running towards me," she said, adding that "what happened next was a spontaneous reaction of a mother and a child".

From BBC

By spinning insurrectionist activities of the day as a spontaneous reaction, they hope to avoid the most serious conspiracy charges.

From Salon

“It looks perfect,” he said in a spontaneous reaction when the ruling hit headlines at his office in Vienna.

From Reuters

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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