resist
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Maddinson was only able to resist four deliveries before nicking to third slip.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Investors should also resist reading it as a promise of 40% lower costs.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Online merchants face a difficult decision, though: Do they embrace outside agents in hopes of a sales boost, or do they resist them?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
By engineering the natural immune defenses of plants, researchers have developed an experimental approach that could eventually help wheat, rice, and barley resist fungal infections more effectively.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Unable to resist this ripe opportunity for promotion, Mr. Cogswell had also tacked a smaller banner across the back of the wagon, advertising “Fresh Cherries at Cogswell’s. Best price in town.”
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
The father resists but the son is now curious.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
And in a league hard-wired to drag down any team that inches too far ahead, anyone who resists the gravitational pull toward mediocrity has figured out how to beat the system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The HV measurement refers to Vickers hardness, a test that evaluates how strongly a material resists being indented by a hard tip.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
The human personality resists easy analysis — that is surely one of Aviv’s takeaways.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Alabaster is giving it a gravity that resists a total smile.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
They had resisted doing so earlier in the session and when Harmer was bowled by Marnus Labuschagne a ball before the Bavuma wicket.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
England resisted naming their team 24 hours early and will instead do so at the toss.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Binghamton largely resisted the effects of the depression.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
Trautman never flagged in his struggles with distribution, wartime shortages, congressional interference and intransigent publishers, who first resisted paperbacks and then the notion that they should provide books—at cost—as part of the war effort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
My father resisted his black lung and kept going into the mine.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
The company has been selling pricier models, and resisting discounting, to boost its top line.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
There’s a gravitational pull that we’ve been resisting ever since we made the president a big role, and then placed one of our leads in the role of vice president.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
They also reported poorer sleep, a stronger desire for continuous stimulation, and greater difficulty resisting the urge to immediately check their phones or act on impulses.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Even with this new information, Arthur still worried they could be related, so after years of resisting it, they finally took a home DNA test.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Clara muttered, resisting the urge to do so herself.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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