reflexive

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• Although I didn’t know it at the time, my reflexive retreats into abstract realms was the nursery in which my individuality was fostered as a teenager.

• It becomes distorted, and is untethered from the reflexive and generative environment in which it was created, and can be used to serve quite different purposes.

• Counterfactual information generation allows a conscious agent to detach itself from the environment and perform non-reflexive behavior, such as waiting for three seconds before acting.

• Taking a self-reflexive turn, she argued that high school oratory had become a race to one-up competitors with ever more harrowing personal stories.

• In recent Republican congressional primaries, the rank-and-file has voted “no” to reflexive interventionism.

• There have been reflexive attempts to associate some recent mass shooters with the right-wing politics of incitement.

• It would be a reflexive resort to ideological self-satisfaction.

• There is a history here that makes a reflexive negative response to a military coup understandable.

• So I now have this sort of reflexive flinch when the jobs report comes out, as I half-expect a big blow to fall.

• The termination uba is that of the third person of reflexive verbs.

• The intransitive form derives from the transitive by dropping a generalized, customary, or cognate object.