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resistant

adjective as in antagonistic

adjective as in impervious

Strongest matches

Weak matches

adjective as in opposing

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Cummings and countless others to a resistant cultural establishment.

Approximately 15% of these cases respond well to immunotherapy, while the majority remain resistant to this treatment approach.

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While timber tends to burn at a fixed rate, making plastic flame resistant is another story because plastics tend to burn at an accelerating rate, he explains.

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Two of these strains are resistant to several common classes of antibiotics.

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The team focused specifically on brass ammunition casings, a substance that has been traditionally resistant to fingerprint detection and is the most common type of material used globally.

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