intolerant
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Groups that are less likely to be lactose intolerant include northern Europeans—populations believed to have developed genetic mutations from a history of dairy herding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
People are intolerant, and they just don’t change.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
"We found that these contributions are widespread throughout the genome, and ghost ancestry is detected even in regions previously thought to be intolerant of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancestry."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
In a better world, perhaps he’d have had a change of heart and repented of his increasingly intolerant tirades.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
But since he stopped snitching, he had become increasingly intolerant of prisoners who continued to inform on their neighbors.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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