Definitions for knee-jerk
knee-jerk

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1. knee-jerknoun

   A sudden reflexive movement of the leg below the knee, as a reaction to a tap to the tendon just below the patella (kneecap).

2. knee-jerkadjective

   Automatic, spontaneous, easily predictable

   He gave a knee-jerk response.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of knee-jerk in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of knee-jerk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of knee-jerk in a Sentence

1. The President:

   I don't think my role is to rubber stamp for the President, but it's also not an automatic knee-jerk no, either.

2. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox:

   We must also make it abundantly clear that Utah is a place that welcomes everyone regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or any other background, it is who we are, and it may be easy to lose sight of that during a knee-jerk debate.

3. Arthur Smith:

   This is a good program. They know what they're looking for. I think this shows they've had a good vision. With [head coach] Sean McDermott, [general manager] Brandon Beane and their staffs, I think this is what you're seeing with competent leadership and consistency year over year what they're drafting for, you know, not dissimilar to what [Falcons general manager Terry Fontenot] and I hope to build here. You have a strategy, you have a philosophy, you have some consistency. There's not a lot of knee-jerk reactions. That's why they got a really good roster and they're really well coached and they know what they're looking for. They know what they're asked to do.

4. Olivia Nuzzi:

   I’ve always been interested in our knee jerk deference to the intelligence community and how we never learn any lessons related to that.

5. Ryan McGrath:

   There will be weakness in Irish bond prices on Monday morning. Markets don't like uncertainty but we don't anticipate a big knee-jerk reaction because investors were ready for this outcome, the longer it goes on, the more nervous investors would become. If you had the duel challenges of political instability coupled with a looming 'Brexit' (after Britain's In-Out EU referendum), the Irish bond market would find it very challenging.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Knee-jerk