in reaction to
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: in response to
The newspaper received many angry letters in reaction to the editorial.
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Throwing out your long-term strategy in reaction to a bad quarter is the equivalent of confusing weather with long-term climate.
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Another attempt to rally started shortly after 1 p.m. ET when pressure on rates eased in reaction to a successful auction of $22 billion of 30-year Treasury bonds.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
Some of the Academy Award-winning actor's friends, including David Krumholtz, checked in within the comments of her Instagram in reaction to her safety post.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Across his four-feature filmography, Eggers’s female characters can be selfish and inscrutable, but that is almost always in reaction to unsympathetic, patriarchal societies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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Dev Patnaik, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Another attempt to rally started shortly after 1 p.m. ET when pressure on rates eased in reaction to a successful auction of $22 billion of 30-year Treasury bonds.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2025
Some of the Academy Award-winning actor's friends, including David Krumholtz, checked in within the comments of her Instagram in reaction to her safety post.
—Tommy McArdle, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Across his four-feature filmography, Eggers’s female characters can be selfish and inscrutable, but that is almost always in reaction to unsympathetic, patriarchal societies.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
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