resistance
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Today it symbolizes freedom and resistance to aggression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Love her or not, seeing O’Donnell back in her element was a master class in unapologetic cultural resistance.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
When chronically elevated, these biomarkers have previously been associated with insulin resistance and a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Movements are often more challenging to your balance when done slowly with gentle resistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Faced with this ever-growing flood of squatters, two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, began building a larger, more cohesive Indigenous resistance.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
Though mosquito insecticides exist, the pests are developing resistances, and advancements are needed to reduce their numbers and slow the spread of pathogens they carry, including the malaria parasite and the Zika and dengue viruses.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
In the 1940's and '50's, when humans first began taking antibiotics, the resistances were already in the environment and worked their way into the bacteria that cause human infection.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
And the ways in which we have learned to speak at or around those resistances.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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