Synonyms for knee jerk
knee jerk

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1. knee jerk, knee-jerk reflex, patellar reflexnoun

   a reflex extension of the leg resulting from a sharp tap on the patellar tendon

   Synonyms:
   knee-jerk reflex, patellar reflex

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1. • Reflex

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1. Steve Tomsic:

   I think when people think about competition, they sort of, their knee jerk reaction is to think,' well all we need is two or three talking heads to go head to head with ours.' The business is much bigger than that.

2. Jo Ann Hardesty:

   The police have arolebut their role is simply to solve crime -- their role is not to prevent crime, their role is not to intervene in other community activities, a response to gun violence should not be a knee-jerk reaction.

3. James Clark:

   In every urban core you have the same mentality that is on display in St Louis right now. In St Louis, we have a human capital crisis where you have men, women, boys and girls who have not been cultivated to care, so, violence becomes a knee-jerk reaction.

4. Ashima:

   Kill me is just an honest and knee-jerk reaction to dearth of substance.

5. Eury Patrick:

   They’re not trained to just empty their gun, it’s not a knee-jerk reaction. They’re trained to shoot until the risk is ended.