resistance
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With Samoa's resistance gradually waning, Waaka capped a fine individual display with her hat-trick and McGregor scored the try her performance richly deserved to round off a fine New Zealand display.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Insulin resistance occurs when the body's cells become less responsive to insulin, making it harder to regulate blood sugar and increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Among the pathogens treated are Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, two bacterial species associated with infections that can be particularly challenging to manage, especially when antibiotic resistance is involved.
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
Fearful of an even larger confederacy, Harrison reasoned that destroying Prophet’s Town would crush the 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
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 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
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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