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reflexive

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Much of it also seems reflexive, as if the governor is a puppet and his own ambition is pulling the strings.

Although I didn’t know it at the time, my reflexive retreats into abstract realms was the nursery in which my individuality was fostered as a teenager.

It becomes distorted, and is untethered from the reflexive and generative environment in which it was created, and can be used to serve quite different purposes.

From Time

Counterfactual information generation allows a conscious agent to detach itself from the environment and perform non-reflexive behavior, such as waiting for three seconds before acting.

Taking a self-reflexive turn, she argued that high school oratory had become a race to one-up competitors with ever more harrowing personal stories.

From Time

In recent Republican congressional primaries, the rank-and-file has voted “no” to reflexive interventionism.

There have been reflexive attempts to associate some recent mass shooters with the right-wing politics of incitement.

It would be a reflexive resort to ideological self-satisfaction.

There is a history here that makes a reflexive negative response to a military coup understandable.

So I now have this sort of reflexive flinch when the jobs report comes out, as I half-expect a big blow to fall.

The termination uba is that of the third person of reflexive verbs.

The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, reflexive or cognate object.

Alteration to hine would give a common reflexive use, rejoices; comp.

Her indignation at the woman who had supplanted her swept over her with a reflexive flush of heat.

I think I put out my hand, or made some other reflexive gesture to stop her, but either she failed to notice or misunderstood.

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On this page you'll find 36 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reflexive, such as: compulsory, forced, spontaneous, uncontrolled, unintentional, and automatic.

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

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