righting reflex

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n.

Any of various reflexes that tend to bring the body into normal position in space and resist forces acting to displace it out of normal position.static reflex

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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there

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Words nearby righting reflex

right-hand rule, right heart, right hepatic duct, Right Honourable, right inferior pulmonary vein, righting reflex, right in the head, rightish, rightism, rightist, right-laid

Example sentences from the Web for righting reflex

But when a serial sex predator is playing fanboy, the gag reflex kicks in.
Sleazy Billionaire’s Double Life Featured Beach Parties With Stephen Hawking|M.L. Nestel|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Worry has become as automatic a reflex as breathing in your sleep.
The Israeli App Red Alert Saves Lives—but It Just Might Drive You Nuts|Itay Hod|July 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lefty pinko Center for Constitutional Rights embraces the Constitution—says it means government righting wrongs.
P.J. O’Rourke: Who Really Actually Wants This Bill of Rights?|P. J. O’Rourke|April 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nevertheless, the feeling I insist upon having is hope—the chance of righting this sinking ship before it is too late.
Can Generation Hot Avoid Its Fate?|Mark Hertsgaard|April 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Then came the moment when a reflex born of a lifetime with a badge caused him to check the door window at the end of the car.
My Patrol With the NYPD’s Bill Bratton|Michael Daly|March 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here the Dimbula shot down a hollow, lying almost on her side—righting at the bottom with a wrench and a spasm.
Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II|Rudyard Kipling
Even if I were to be shot, the reflex action of my fingers would pull the trigger of this revolver and McGinty will die.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
The reflex excitability is lowered and the sensibility diminished.
A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy|Alexander Hughes Bennett
It came, I think, out of just such an automatic reflex as causes an "opening" in conversation to call forth its own obvious reply.
In Accordance with the Evidence|Oliver Onions
The reflex action on his sensitive mind first stunned, and then warped his senses.
Etidorhpa or the End of Earth.|John Uri Lloyd

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