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automatic reaction

noun as in knee-jerk reaction

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“When you say to a girl, you know, at a very basic level, this name makes some girls feel like they don’t belong, their automatic reaction is: ‘You should change it.’…

But while six months ago that was an almost automatic reaction, companies should take a "more granular approach" for 2023, said Finn Hansen, CEO of market research firm PriceBeam.

From Reuters

Refraining from hugging and kissing should be the least of Hawaii’s worries right now, he said, but he understands interpersonal contact is an automatic reaction here.

As a 6-year-old at summer camp, he discovered his body had an automatic reaction to music, that this reaction was different from other people’s, and that seemingly everyone loved to watch.

“There are elected officials in both parties whose automatic reaction is to improve safety by giving government more control. That’s an understandable reaction, but not the correct one.”

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

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