Ingrained and Reflex

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Ingrained adjective - Being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing.

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Reflex and ingrained are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reflex" instead an adjective "Ingrained".

Nearby Word: ingrain

Reflex adjective - Without volition or conscious control.

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Ingrained and reflex are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ingrained" instead an adjective "Reflex".

Simon even says "other door" as she's bursting out of it, the reflex apparently having become ingrained from so many that had tried to go through the locked door.

Source: Door Dumb
It's so ingrained in some of the Yeerks that the knee-jerk reflex can blow their cover.

Source: You Rebel Scum!
While most of the deaths are fairly obvious and easy to engineer, getting Ryan killed can only be done by failing to talk Dawkins down when Jodie meets him in the Black Sun chamber, then resisting the ingrained reflex to throttle him with Aiden as soon as the controls switch to the latter.

Source: Videogame / Beyond: Two Souls

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