resistant
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High inflation has forced businesses to pay substantially more for supplies, and it’s not easy to pass on those costs to resistant customers.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 3, 2026
Bedbugs have become resistant to modern insecticide sprays, which makes them very difficult to kill and having an infestation can have long-lasting effects, according to Naylor.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Games were painfully long, the sport too resistant to change.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Alison Green, the advice maven behind Ask a Manager, explores what makes some employees so resistant to quitting a toxic job.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026
The forest was resistant to them at first, with thorn trees and brambles—but the further in they went, the taller and richer it became.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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