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We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.

Or how kicking a reaction-less eunuch in the crotch over and over again is comedy.

Your general reaction runs along the lines of: “When will these geezers give it up and go for a mall walk or something?”

Jundullah and Jaish ul Adl sprang up “in reaction to that kind of oppression,” he said.

No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.

While this reaction lasted he laughed away the evidence, and honestly believed he was exaggerating trifles.

Ordinarily the diazo appears a little earlier than the Widal reaction—about the fourth or fifth day—but it may be delayed.

For Lettice—the tender woman of his first acquaintance—had obviously experienced a moment of reaction.

When applied to the diagnosis of typhoid fever, the phenomenon is known as the Widal reaction.

As yet, it is the only agglutination reaction which has any practical value for the practitioner.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to reaction, such as: answer, attitude, backlash, feedback, feeling, and opinion.

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

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