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reflex

adjective as in mechanical

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In theory, each ingredient plays a role: one dries secretions, another loosens phlegm, a third dulls the cough reflex.

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Pickford is rightly renowned for his fast reflexes when making stops but, like every modern-day keeper, he is no longer only judged by how good he is with his hands.

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“I don’t say the Jews, I don’t say Israel, I say the Israeli administration. But even then, there’s a reflex — you can’t touch this.”

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Her bullet missed, thanks to the quick reflexes of a former Marine standing next to her.

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Our Boy placed that child’s consciousness inside a synthetic body resembling an adult woman, then endowed that construct with superior strength, heightened reflexes and a supercomputer with remote hacking capabilities for a brain.

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

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