resistance
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Antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections increasingly difficult to treat around the world.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
Proposals to cut community hospital beds in some of Wales' most rural areas have met with strong resistance.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
As Mike teams up with a few pals, a police officer and an events organizer, a funny and remarkably optimistic story of small-town resistance unfolds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026
These instruments revealed extremely small structural changes within the metal, including those near cracks that helped explain its unusual resistance to damage.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
The gravest issues seem to have occurred among the partisans, the guerrilla resistance fighters on the German-occupied side of the front lines.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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
A lot of the voice was thinking about how the various ways in which, like, I think sometimes for me voice is about like, the resistances that we come up against.
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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