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. Witness Jose Torres:

   It’s not a knee-jerk reaction. They’re trained to shoot until the risk is ended. i’m not going to use the word, but I said, ‘Why the f are they still shooting him if he’s on the ground?'.

2. 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.

3. Wayne Kaufman:

   This is just a knee-jerk reaction, based on a bear thesis that Express Scripts will start to dictate prices, i don't see how this is any different than any other company in another sector getting more competition. Soon people will go through the stocks one-by-one to see which got oversold.

4. Cristian Maggio:

   The market was surprised by the result, so there was a strong knee-jerk reaction yesterday, but it has adjusted for the surprise now.

5. Jonathan Barratt:

   I think it was more of a knee-jerk reaction because of the substantial build (of oil stocks) at Cushing.