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. Aaron Dillon:

   One of the positions was sizeable, so the market reacted negatively to that, it's kind of a knee-jerk reaction, where you have some of the fast money reacting, but no one really for the long haul is going to make a dramatic move.

2. Doug Jones:

   I'm open to voting yes. I'm open to voting no. We don't know who this nominee is going to be yet. I don't think my role is a rubber stamp for the President, but it's also not an automatic, knee-jerk no either.

3. Paul Ryan:

   Those of us around Paul Ryan really helped to stop him from making bad decisions. All the time, we helped Paul Ryan make much better decisions, which were contrary to kind of what Paul Ryan knee-jerk reaction was. Now I think Paul Ryan's making some of these knee-jerk reactions.

4. Denise Scott-McDonald:

   We feel that the government did a knee-jerk reaction to the crisis.

5. Chinese Finance Minister Lou Jiwei:

   It's difficult to predict now, the knee-jerk reaction from the market is probably a bit excessive and needs to calm down and take an objective view.