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knee jerk reaction
noun as in reply
noun as in response
noun as in knee-jerk reaction
noun as in force of habit
noun as in knee-jerk
noun as in retroaction
noun as in automatic response
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Example Sentences
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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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knee-jerk reaction, such as: absence of thought, automatic reaction, gut reaction, involuntary impulse, and pavlovian response.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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