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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• When this happens, emotional reactivity loses its charge because the right and left parts of the brain become more connected, says psychiatrist and author Dr. Dan Siegel in his book Mindsight.
  — Time, 28 Oct. 2021
• Its high reactivity with oxygen urges it to form compounds, including silicates (like clay) and silica (like quartz).
  — David Lumb, Popular Mechanics, 9 Dec. 2020
• Early in life, the mere presence of a parent reduces a child’s levels of cortisol, a major stress hormone, and downregulates their amygdala reactivity.
  — Dylan Gee, Vox, 20 June 2018
• The next article in this series focuses on the consequences of such sustained microglial reactivity, particularly in the white matter regions of the brain.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024