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- adverb Without
mental reflection .
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Examples
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These black voters do not simply throw themselves unreflectingly at black candidates.
New Hillary Ad Stars John Breaux, Former Senator And Wal-Mart Lobbyist 2009
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These terms are then applied unreflectingly to what are seen as analogous processes and ideas elsewhere, and the result can be great confusion.
Sri Aurobindo seeks synergy between religion and politics Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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None of this, however, matters to Israel's vociferous regional enemies nor to the unreflectingly anti-war conpiracy theorists who can always be made to sympathize with them.
Conspiracy Theories Wrap Around Israel-Palestine Negotiations 2008
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These terms are then applied unreflectingly to what are seen as analogous processes and ideas elsewhere, and the result can be great confusion.
Archive 2008-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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Even if a mother perceives herself as an "angry" martyr, in Jelinek's work she is the one who, unreflectingly, carries out the oppression which is institutionalised in the dominant male-ordered social structure:
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No one questioned either this or the lying language on which film, theatre and cultural life in Austria was unreflectingly based.
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Maurice followed him — followed warily and yet unreflectingly — right down the long, populous street.
Maurice Guest 2003
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Seeing this, many unreflectingly ask, 'Why then meddle with it?'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Being met by Christianity, they embraced it in large numbers, unreflectingly, at the command of their leaders.
A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman
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There was almost a wholesale appropriation of goods from the burning cars by men and even women who would at other times have shuddered at the idea of robbery; and after the riot was suppressed goods were for some time voluntarily returned by persons who had taken them unreflectingly, having at length recovered their moral perceptions, which had seemingly been clouded by the vicious influence of the mob.
A Short History of Pittsburgh Samuel Harden Church
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