gut reaction

Example Sentences

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And why is our gut reaction to drop our jaws in horror when we hear that the recently released Bing search engine chatbot likes to call its alter ego Sydney, and has ideas about what mayhem it would wreck with its shadow self?

From Los Angeles Times

Salge Blake said her gut reaction was that this was a fat-shaming tactic.

From Seattle Times

My gut reaction is it’s not anything necessarily that I’m doing.

From Los Angeles Times

"My gut reaction was just to say, 'No - no, you're not, you're not interested. Go back right now into the courtroom and tell her, No, you made a mistake. Just tell her no,'" Pete says.

From BBC

“What I have found over the years doing this is that people respond to it with a visceral, gut reaction,” Strathairn said of the Karski show.

From Washington Post