reflexive

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It is an unusually nuanced take on a subject that too often generates reflexive fulminating or fawning, and a truly auspicious start to the New Museum’s new chapter.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The language is reflexive, ritualized, and remarkably effective.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

A simple example of reflexive consciousness is recognizing oneself in a mirror.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025

But there’s an existential aspect to this that he, not being especially bright or reflexive, probably doesn’t understand.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

He hadn’t expected me to answer, maybe had given me up for dead already and was calling now out of some reflexive grief instinct that he couldn’t switch off.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs