knee jerk
Example Sentences
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"Everyone recognizes there is a growing antibiotic resistance crisis, and the knee jerk reaction is to develop new antibiotics," You added.
From Science Daily • Feb. 22, 2024
But a former cabinet minister - strongly opposed to withdrawal - described the idea as "knee jerk nonsense".
From BBC • Aug. 8, 2023
The sell-off was a "knee jerk reaction to an outcome that took a lot of people by surprise," Lotfi Karoui, chief credit strategist at Goldman Sachs, told Reuters.
From Reuters • Mar. 20, 2023
“I feel changing it because of criminal activity is a knee jerk rection and it’s not going to change anything,” she said last week.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 24, 2022
The loss of the knee jerk is always observed in time.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
