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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.
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The knee-jerk reaction to such a thing would be to call Disney the new Pixar.
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The NSSF exhorts the firearms faithful to “oppose knee-jerk reaction legislation.”
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“Just a knee-jerk reaction to a tragedy,” Jake McGuigan of the NSSF said of the bill.
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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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