Then the grenade detonated, and he reflexively fired off “a couple” of shots in the chaos.
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Do that too reflexively (and for too long) and Maleficent is what you end up with.
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This happens only three times in our two hours in that room: There are three questions he wants to answer slowly, not reflexively.
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We Westerners reflexively trust elections, and we do not hesitate to recommend them to others who know better.
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Republicans could once be counted on to reflexively support and boost defense spending, but no more.
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On its screen appeared Curt Andrews, bright young assistant account man, reflexively simulating activity at his desk.
Telempathy|Vance Simonds
Reflexively, he whirled and crouched, gun flickering into his hand.
The Ties That Bind|Walter Miller
Both dremen (to dream) and meten (also to dream) are sometimes used with a dative case and reflexively in Old English.
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She looked away and reflexively reached toward the delete button.
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British Dictionary definitions for reflexive
reflexive
/ (rɪˈflɛksɪv) /
adjective
denoting a class of pronouns that refer back to the subject of a sentence or clause. Thus, in the sentence that man thinks a great deal of himself, the pronoun himself is reflexive
denoting a verb used transitively with the reflexive pronoun as its direct object, as the French se lever "to get up" (literally "to raise oneself") or English to dress oneself
physiolof or relating to a reflex
logicmaths(of a relation) holding between any member of its domain and itself"… is a member of the same family as …" is reflexive Compare irreflexive, nonreflexive
Of or relating to a mathematical or logical relation such that, for any given element, that element has the given relation to itself. Equality in mathematics is a reflexive relation, since a = a for all a, whereas the relation of being 'less than' is not, since it is not true that a < a for any a.