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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a reflex of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a reflection or manifestation of another thing, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "Her smile was a reflex of her happiness, radiating joy to everyone around her."
Alternatives: "a reflection of" or "an indication of".
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"And it's a reflex of superiority and condescension.
In a moment like that, the head it was a reflex of survival".
Writing is a reflex of absence, an attempt to make contact with a distant, elusive reader.
But it also creates servitude to notions of beauty that are no more than "a reflex of the culture in which we live".
Ann passed her son the phone and noted how his fingers flew over the keypad, Dick's number still a reflex of his hand.
It is a reflex of almost all journalists to rail against the powerful, including, and often especially, the ones they work for.
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It consists of a reflex inhibition of the jaw-closing muscles elicited by peri- or intraoral electrical stimulations.
It's a gag reflex of an utterance, a verbally administered emetic.
This is the Great Man theory of politics, a collective reflex of a moneyed oligarchy that has its hands on the levers of power.
Or was it a paltry reflex of greed, a desire to turn some small profit in my otherwise generous gesture?
Maybe it was a reflex, devoid of meaning.
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