reflexive
reflexivity
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a word derived from
reflexive.
Example Sentences
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Busts occur when capital spending starts declining – which could be from rising financing costs, overcapacity, asset price reflexivity, cash-flow delays or any combination.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Around the same time, philanthropist George Soros adapted the concept of reflexivity to explain how investors’ perceptions affect the social environment, which, in turn, informs their perceptions.
From Nature ● Oct. 22, 2019
The most stunning bit of frame-breaking reflexivity is also an astounding moment of cultural criticism and self-criticism.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2018
Eating sumptuous meals without apparent relish, jogging separately through impossibly gorgeous towns, and firing off celebrity impersonations with wearying one-upmanship, they perform with the competitive reflexivity of the longtime double act.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2017
Less reflexivity and more plasticity, the eye more on the object, would raise the style of Vinet, so rich in substance, so nervous, so full of ideas, and variety, into a grand style.
From Amiel's Journal by Mrs. Humphry Ward
