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How to use the word reactive in a Sentence?

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If there is a virus hidden in the permafrost that we have not been in contact with for thousands of years, it might be that our immune defense is not sufficient, it is correct to have respect for the situation and be proactive and not just reactive. And the way to fight fear is to have knowledge.

Birgitta Evengård

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My only hope is the majority of the money is spent on projects that permanently reduce and put the system in the balance, rather than covering the costs of temporary fallowing, the system really needs to be more reactive to uncertain changes in hydrology due to climate change.

Eric Kuhn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The rapidity of these events is increasing and our response is not keeping pace, we are being reactive to individual events. Strategies need to be put in place.

Afia Salam

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In this instance, if true, if Dawn Hughes said she hit him first, then that would not be reactive violence.

Dawn Hughes

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If we want to ever beat the Russians we have to flip the tables, we can’t be in that reactive mode because it doesn’t work. Putin already factored in all the sanctions and sanction-proofed his economy.

Rebekah Koffler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Being reactive is like experiencing the world on choppy seas, always at the whim of the weather.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

The difference between being reactive and being responsive is the difference between night and day.

Lisa Haisha

added by lisa.haisha
2 years ago

It didn't take a whole lot of convincing for me to be collaborative and responsive, as opposed to reactive, to( a child's) actions.

Carlyn Hicks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

While my work as a paramedic was important to the community I felt it was reactive : somebody gets shot, somebody overdoses, i wanted to further my understanding of the world and further educate Gaige Grosskreutz and then be on the proactive side. Stop people from getting shot, stop people from overdosing.

Gaige Grosskreutz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When you procrastinate, you tend to be reactive and wait until the very last minute and then the quality of the work becomes just a checklist just to get it done, compared to' I do this because I have pride in doing this.... I care about the results. Now the shift is :' I need to do just enough so I don't get into trouble.'.

Foram Sheth

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A lot of what we have to do as journalists is be reactive, i really wanted to devote my career to just thinking carefully about the kinds of images that go out into the world.

Yoni Brook

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Loyalism and unionism are always reactive and on the defensive mode, but now, unionism is having to react to different forces outside of its control.

Gareth Mulvenna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All of these things... conspire to make people very fearful, because they assume maybe this is the endgame for European Union, loyalism and unionism are always reactive and on the defensive mode, but now, unionism is having to react to different forces outside of its control.

Gareth Mulvenna

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Their collective conviction is that when they hit the bell for the Calvary to come, call 911, that due to defunding, due to widespread and sustained retirements, due to a reactive policing model ... the response will be diminished. It'll be longer.

Spencer Platt/Getty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

To defund the police, take guns from police, and blame police for the growing crime problem is to render the police into a Reactive and not a Proactive force. This is not Nirvana. The followers of AOC, better known as All Out Crazy, want to weaken policing even more. The Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt, the Father of modern day policing, is probably turning in his grave as these events unfold.

Curtis Sliwa

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The ability to use on-premise media, and in particular digital signage and digital out-of-home media, allows brands and retailers to be reactive and provide contextually relevant content and advertising, think coffee promotions in the morning or marketing hot chocolate or snow shovels ahead of a big snow storm.

Mark Boidman

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Because these coronaviruses are all related, given that every year we run into one of them, it's not surprising that we have T cells that are reactive with them.

Arturo Casadevall

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It does appear in this study that there is a significant proportion of individuals that have this cross-reactive T cell immunity from other coronavirus infections that may have some impact on how they fare with the novel coronavirus. I think the big question is trying to jump from the fact that they have these T cells to understanding what the role of those T cells might be.

Amesh Adalja

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think China wants to keep the JASDF off-balance and reactive, wear out its aircraft and air crew, gain training and keep the pressure up daily on who owns the disputed islands.

Peter Layton

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When a child is anxious or fearful, the parts of their brains responsible for attention, thinking, and learning just aren't able to function as well, teachers might find that some kids are more distractible, seemingly disengaged, not understanding the material as easily, or even easily annoyed or more emotionally reactive.

Neha Chaudhary

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It was literally whack-a-mole. You would get the okay to spend cash when there was an incident. A reactive security program in that kind of environment is not what you're looking for.

Brian Flannery

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The dog was reactive and scared, she lost her family.

Alex Munoz

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The act was beautiful and moral and purely reactive to another crime. Their video was, indeed, criminal and gratuitous. You dont play with Jesus Christs name, vandalizing the image of Jesus the way it was made is equivalent to a declaration of war against the Brazilian people.

Eduardo Fauzi

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It shouldn't just be a reactive policy due to the emergency that neighboring countries are facing with these fires. Rather it should have a long-term view on how to avoid deforestation.

Martin Vizcarra

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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