How to Use reactivity in a Sentence

reactivity

noun

• That speed and hyper-reactivity wasn’t there yet in the 2000s.
  — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 13 Sep. 2019
• The above is just a brief description on how to work with your dog’s reactivity to other dogs.
  — Tasha Suda, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019
• But take it easy with the kneejerk reactivity, since lunar eclipses can throw emotions all over the map.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Sep. 2023
• At the end of each six-week cycle, blood was drawn in the morning and evenings and analyzed for immune cell reactivity.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
• Emotional reactivity can get the best of you at the moment.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Early player reviews of the game have noted a few quest-blocking bugs but also a mind-boggling amount of reactivity to the world, the NPCs, and the quest design.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2023
• And their reactivity is as strong as ever: all night, all the men within earshot attempted to match Hall’s falsetto with their own.
  — Elias Leight, Billboard, 17 June 2017
• Plus, the fabric is designed to increase the reactivity of your muscles.
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 5 Feb. 2024
• The goal is to decrease the emotional reactivity that only harms you.
  — Eiizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 31 July 2017
• The answer came to him in a dream: columns of similar reactivity and rows of ascending weight.
  — Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• These stories are all around us as the day-to-day reactivity that pervades professional life takes its toll.
  — Andrew Deutscher, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• Casadevall speculates that some of the asymptomatic people may be able to rapidly clear the virus thanks to this T-cell reactivity.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane, CNN, 2 Aug. 2020
• Even in the complete absence of memory and cross-reactivity, the body still has a huge reserve of backup cells—the multitude of B and T cells that were not triggered by the first go-round with the virus, Su said.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2021
• Cross-reactivity was seen, but not the kind that helped prevent or control infection.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• In one-on-one meetings with your employees, actively teach them how to move away from reactivity.
  — Ron N Hurst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2021
• Researchers found that, on the one hand, individuals who have low sleep reactivity tend to have fewer problems with sleep when they're stressed.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• The latter scenario would suggest the type of broad-spectrum reactivity necessary to build a new class of antivenom.
  — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 16 May 2019
• No reactivity was observed for the protein in the placenta.
  — Washington Post, 14 May 2021
• Sleep reactivity refers to how much stress interrupts a person's sleep.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 6 Aug. 2023
• Scientists can look at the brains of young mammals — whether humans, rats, or monkeys — when they’re separated from their mothers and see reactivity in the amygdala, which controls the fight-or-flight response.
  — Katherine Reynolds Lewis, The Cut, 17 Apr. 2018
• Those who’d slept and dreamed reported a marked decrease in their emotional response to the images, with a concurrent reduction in reactivity in the amygdala, the emotional center of the brain.
  — Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Chickens raised near cats develop an antibody to Fel d 1, the protein in cat saliva that is responsible for up to 90% of the reactivity in people who are allergic to cats.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 Nov. 2023
• Her suicide is a bold statement, triumph of agency over reactivity.
  — Thelma Adams, Variety, 16 Dec. 2022
• Before election day, do your research and know your choices, paying attention to not getting caught up in the media drama and others’ reactivity.
  — David Gelles, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2016
• While Hanks gives Parker a giddy skip to his step, Butler is nearly stone-faced, leaning into kiss after kiss with little reactivity.
  — Vulture, 2 Sep. 2022
• Nowega is phasing out the local gas, leaving empty steel pipes that Heunemann says should be able to endure any reactivity with pure hydrogen.
  — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
• There has been no convincing evidence so far for any protective effect of T cell cross-reactivity.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• These tests claim that a high level of IgG associated with a certain food indicates a reactivity.
  — Anokhi Saklecha, Discover Magazine, 14 Apr. 2022
• In horses and cattle, hair whorls have been shown to act as a structural marker of reactivity and behavioral lateralization.
  — Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
• For You Chickens raised near cats can develop antibodies against the protein Fel d 1, which is found in cat saliva and is responsible for 90% of the reactivity in people who are allergic to cats.
  — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 17 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024