Reactive is normally followed by to. Reactive rather is incorrect because rather is an adverb, not a preposition. Reactive in appears in limited contexts about behaviour within a field or process.
Use reactive to for responses to stimuli, change, criticism, chemicals, or events. Reactive rather is not a grammatical adjective-preposition pattern. Reactive in is possible when describing behaviour within a situation or system.
These forms are not interchangeable. Choose the construction by meaning, not by which preposition appears most often.
Use reactive to when something responds strongly to a trigger, event, or substance.
Use reactive in limited contexts to describe a style of behaviour inside a process or environment.
Rather commonly appears in the phrase rather than reactive, not as a preposition after reactive.
The same subject can take different constructions because each sentence answers a different question.
Some combinations appear in real text but do not mean what learners often assume.
Rather is an adverb and cannot directly follow reactive as a fixed pattern.
✕ reactive rather customer needs ✓ reactive to customer needsReactive to usually introduces the thing causing the reaction.
✓ The chemical is reactive to waterChoose the expression that matches the intended meaning.
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Yes. It is the standard pattern in scientific, emotional, and business contexts.
Because rather is not a preposition. It does not form a fixed phrase with reactive.
Yes, but mainly to describe behaviour within a context, such as reactive in negotiations.
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