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Example sentences for: knee-jerk

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"A knee-jerk response to India's legitimate strategic concerns will only reinforce the China-Pakistan nuclear axis, with fearful consequences for US interests in West Asia," the newspaper said.
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
In his January 25 memo, Clarke had advised Rice that the government should respond to the Cole attack, but "should take advantage of the policy that 'we will respond at a time, place and manner of our own choosing' and not be forced into knee-jerk responses."
So one knee-jerk reaction begets another, and our peculiar penchant for verbal infanticide—or infantile verbicide—continues.
Sullivan says that the idea that a flat tax is a "giveaway to the rich" is a knee-jerk response.