automatic reaction

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This triggered a rapid, automatic reaction involving the brainstem and muscles.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

“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.’…

From Seattle Times • Jan. 11, 2023

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 • Sep. 15, 2022

Charles: If you can find ways to feel in control, then you can get better at controlling the startle reflex, that rush of panic and energy that evolution’s made into this automatic reaction.

From Slate • Oct. 31, 2019

This is always the instinctive and automatic reaction.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl