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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.
And it's also why Germans should get over the knee-jerk reaction that any foreign takeover necessarily means terrible things for a German company.
It is charged (by knee-jerk Slate haters and paid apologists for our rivals) that by including a free umbrella with each subscription to Slate , we are attempting to extend our current dominant position in online poetry-read-aloud into the market for umbrellas, thereby stifling innovation in this crucial field.
Orgies of high-mindedness like the Volunteer Summit--four presidents, Colin Powell, the networks, celebrities, corporations, foundations, all huffing and puffing in Philadelphia--are a cheap target for knee-jerk iconoclasm.
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."