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What does reflex mean?

reflex

an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus (= automatic, reflexive) without volition or conscious control the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light a reflex knee jerk sneezing is reflexive

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Simple sentences

Thank you very much. Thank you for activating my gag reflex.

Movie subtitles

When you finally managed to lure Scarlett into the ballroom, I imagine it all came as something of a reflex response.
It's purely a reflex of the facial muscles.
I ran a reflex test on him after you went to bed last night.
It was not decision that drove me to the crate, but reflex. as instinctive as the spider's.
It was a reflex action.
Now then, for this shot, I absolutely need to have the 14 reflex..
Not that reflex.
Just a reflex.
It's an automatic reflex when I'm being warned off.
This must develop very fast reflex actions.
Reflex?
Kill the criminal reflex, that's all.
Did she rise as a reflex to you having indicated her, or in answer to my question?
The bioelectric charge and discharge produced by the genital embrace. causes the orgasmic reflex - supremely pleasurable muscular contractions.
Reflex hammer.
It's a reflex.
I think that 75 out of 100 young males have that reflex.
It's reflex.
Reflex action brought on by the exercising, sort of a high charley-horse.
A mere reflex action.
How's the eye reflex?
Yeah, it's just reflex.
Asinine reflex.
Reflex behaviors rule our existence.
So, a reflex.
But what can I do? It's a reflex.
I must have picked it up by reflex.
Reflex action.
It's a conditioned reflex, you see?
Swallow reflex is almost there.
You created in her a conditional reflex.
Reflex movements are those which are made independently of the will, but are carried out along pathways which pass between the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system.
A reflex.
That's a reflex action.
Is that deliberate or just a reflex?

News and current affairs

The British government's first reflex was to reject any suggestion that the British rebate is open to discussion: it was justified in 1984, and it is justified today.
But indulging the old political reflex of manipulating the exchange rate to create a competitive advantage will yield a short-term fix at best.
This reflex has left Zimbabwe practically a journalism-free zone, with only the foreign press seeking to hold President Robert Mugabe to account.
The charge of colonialism, meanwhile, is simply reflex: colonialism no longer exists.
The first reflex of the fundamentalists is to withdraw from the mainstream, to build around themselves a shell that is impervious to any logic other than their own.
To be sure, simply championing populism for its own sake - a Stalinist or New Left reflex - makes for bad art.
This reflex might explain the presence of a woman at the helm of GM during its current damaging recall of defective cars, for example.
Our interactions with Muslims may be unconsciously influenced by this defensive reflex, and that may encourage equally defensive attitudes on their part.
An anybody-but-Sarkozy reflex may exist in some circles of French society, but, in order to prevail, a credible alternative is required.
Even more insidious is the reflex even today in major Western media whereby attention is regularly directed to the appearance and sexuality of powerful women, especially those in politics.
So the search for scapegoats proceeds, not in earnest and with energy, but as a reflex, the death throes of the old ways of doing things.
Ireland, by far the biggest beneficiary of EU membership has demonstrated a powerful anti-European reflex, despite being hit early and hard by the crisis.

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