reactive
Example Sentences
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“Caltrans cannot keep being in a reactive phase and then putting the city in a position of covering up for their failures.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
With a long-overdue pivot to a strategy of cost-imposition, we can flip the script and break the cycle of reactive defense.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The wide-ranging proposals say reactive action would be insufficient, and online marketplaces would need to "act with due care to prevent, identify and remove dangerous products being sold via their platforms".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
The ability to create and maintain reactive intermediate molecules in water also brings scientists closer to replicating the chemistry that naturally occurs inside living cells, which are mostly composed of water.
From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2026
The mesarthium, he thought, must be reactive with skin the way some other metals were, such as copper.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing reactive
Chemical Reactions - Introductory
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Matter and Energy 2: Properties of Matter, Chemical Reactions, and Energy
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The State of the Union Address 2015
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