resistant
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And there’s no better classic rock band than Led Zeppelin, a group famously resistant to licensing their songs until recently when the levee has apparently broken.
From Los Angeles Times
Over many decades, some bacteria have gradually become resistant to widely used antibiotics and disinfectants, creating serious challenges for medicine and public health.
From Science Daily
The metabolite profiles in these susceptible mice also differed from those observed in a strain of mice naturally resistant to metabolic syndrome.
From Science Daily
Noroviruses are relatively resistant to heat and can survive temperatures as high as 145 degrees.
From Los Angeles Times
He also notes that while AI is good at the sorts of computational processes required for computerized chess, it remains more resistant to our efforts to re-create humanlike motor skills.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
