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react

[ree-akt] / riˈækt /


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For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily, John, and David react to a New York Times list of 100 open scientific questions by coming up with some unanswered questions of their own.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

Whether this happens depends a bit on how stock prices react to the higher rates — something that is more ambiguous.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

Known as the hybrid model, it predicts that quark-gluon plasma should react like a fluid when energetic particles travel through it.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

I don't know how they are going to react to me!

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

No telling how he’d react to spending more money for more tests.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

And it will shift depending on how one reacts, as there are multiple endings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

The Tesla’s cameras can see jaywalkers before I do, oncoming headlights don’t blind it, and the car reacts faster than I can.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

As that acidic water reacts with certain rocks -- limestone, for instance -- it releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026

Finally, as with all previous administrations, how a Burnham-led government reacts to events beyond its control may have the biggest impact on the money in people's pockets.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

My heart reacts quicker than my brain—because if my brain were faster, I would know better than to tell Mom anything this personal.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

Fans reacted with anger when some of the ticket price rises for major events next year were announced earlier this summer.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Russian authorities denied Tuesday that they were imposing anti-plague measures after a laboratory technician reportedly died of the disease, and reacted to Washington's offer of assistance by proposing to help battle US infectious diseases.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

Schneider said the deal complements its own industrial AI data foundation, but investors reacted negatively, as Schneider stock fell 10% in Paris trade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

When Harris suggested that even inaction by Congress could have a preemptive effect on state court proceedings, Gorsuch reacted with mild disbelief.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

One of the local pilots told her that her commander had been killed, and she reacted with complete disbelief.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

But then the Russians doubled the number of antennas from four to eight, then to 16, and now to 32, each time reacting to new Lima updates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

At the same time, water molecules surrounding the reacting molecules constantly shift and reorganize in ways that are notoriously difficult to observe directly.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

"I was just reacting to what was going on," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

“But you pick up that phone because you’re reacting in that heightened emotional state,” and that raises your risk of being manipulated.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026

“Mr. Curtain’s boosting the power,” Reynie said gravely, and when Kate and Sticky looked at him, still not comprehending, he said, “It’s the hidden messages. Our minds are reacting to them.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart




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