reflexive

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At its core, reflexive conscious experience supports social integration and coordination with others, helping individuals function within groups.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

Amit Agarwal, Slaughter’s lawyer, struggled to break through their impenetrable certitude, facing reflexive hostility at every turn.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

Patriotism was ennobling, self-sacrifice was reflexive; heroism was rewarded, and everybody was proudly in this fight together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

I worry that in our reactive, reflexive move to find blame, we’re going to miss the interventions that could actually prevent this from happening again.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

In the mornings she teaches arithmetic to his younger pupils, and afterward spends many hours at his bright-white shirtsleeve conjugating the self-same reflexive verbs—I’homme se noie—which a year ago she declared pointless.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver