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- noun Plural form of
knee-jerk .
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Examples
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I am sick to death of the GOP knee-jerks at every little act that our new president does.
Florida GOP chair: Obama trying to 'indoctrinate' children 2009
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Health care reform is not an issue that should be dealt with by knee-jerks reactions along party lines.
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Blind leads the blind: we are quickly growing accustomed to powerful government institutions driven by political considerations and polling bite knee-jerks.
Charles D. Ellison: Shirley Sherrod, Black Farmers and the 2010 Racial World Cup 2010
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In the face of each of these three men we will all be there in the White House having a beer together taking one more step into a post racial world where knee-jerks are not the standard and seeing beyond race is the norm.
Lin B. Farley: A White Working Class View of Gates & Crowley 2009
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You're too intelligent for some of the knee-jerks lurking around.
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Condescending liberals have also established themselves as reactionary and knee-jerks.
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Regarding "Billary", I think Hillary is doing just fine by herself - more organized and directed and disciplined than Bill is (my guess is that she's a good part of why Bill got elected to so many positions, but knee-jerks don't want to contemplate that one).
Hillary, Obama Pick Up Key Newspaper Endorsements In Iowa 2009
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I sure hope the knee-jerks don't vote if they are that easily swayed.
Hillary And Obama Duke It Out Over Hillary's Yucca Mountain Ad 2009
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Before we could sort it all out, we had to decide what to do with the diary, and we both concluded that this was in no sense a public document, despite the braying of the knee-jerks about some public fight to know.
The Bradlee Files 2008
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Well, leave it to the knee-jerks to examine this stuation, and blame it on Socialism!
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