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react

[ree-akt] / riˈækt /


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When a lone professor voiced a dissenting view, the school reacted in the manner of an immune system greeting a foreign pathogen.

From The Wall Street Journal

These sites make it easier for oxygen and ethanol molecules to react.

From Science Daily

Gas plumes from extraction activities reacted in the lower atmosphere, increasing acidity and producing harmful compounds and smog, Fuentes said.

From Science Daily

Different regions react at different speeds, creating internal stress within a single particle rather than stress between multiple grains.

From Science Daily

Most of us would, understandably, react to such news by saying, “Why me?”

From The Wall Street Journal