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knee-jerk reaction

noun as in automatic response

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The passage contradicts the knee-jerk reaction which wants to quantify suffering.

The knee-jerk reaction to such a thing would be to call Disney the new Pixar.

The NSSF exhorts the firearms faithful to “oppose knee-jerk reaction legislation.”

“Just a knee-jerk reaction to a tragedy,” Jake McGuigan of the NSSF said of the bill.

That is a knee-jerk reaction to something that is so clearly not a trend.

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

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