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Those who resist the urge to use their precious time doing anything else will be rewarded not with payoff, but indictment.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

A joint response committee made up of disability rights and other civic groups have criticsed this ruling, saying a victim's ability to resist an assault should not impact the verdict they receive.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

These compounds are designed to resist the natural process that normally breaks down vitamin D.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

But the trade can only resist the pull of rising rates for so long, Colas said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026

It was worthless to resist, because he was weak.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

The father resists but the son is now curious.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Eve resists scream-queen clichés, but Gemma’s boringly typical tortured backstory is as flat as her wan chemistry with Nick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 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

Indeed, one of the striking features of the majority opinion is how persistently it resists artificial distinctions.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

“It can’t really happen, can it? He intends to brainsweep everyone who resists him? Doesn’t he have to put them in his Whisperer to do that? What about people in other countries?”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

In the 1930s and ’40s, Justice Alito explains, the Supreme Court mostly resisted any inclination to strike down Congressional legislation, which had mostly to do with New Deal economic policies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

"Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster," Netanyahu wrote on X.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland,” Rowe continued.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

This past week, in only 88 hours, thousands of collaborating OpenAI agents resolved Navier-Stokes, a Millennium Prize mathematics problem rooted in equations that have resisted full solution since 1822.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

Some migrants resisted these attempts by northerners to rid them of their southern ways.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

“Whether it’s business, universities, law firms, universities, religious organizations, or any other civil society organization,” Grumbach says, “it’s clear that resisting in a coordinated way is more viable than going it alone.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

He takes the long view of Afghanistan's history of resisting foreign invaders.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Bangladesh is resisting Indian efforts to return alleged illegal migrants forcibly across the roughly 2,500-mile boundary between the two countries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

The bottom line: Give Cook credit for resisting the many calls over the last 15 years to respond to the latest fashion on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026

I finally blurted out, resisting the urge to fall to my knees and bow repeatedly.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline