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resistance

[ri-zis-tuhns] / rɪˈzɪs təns /


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One source familiar with the negotiations said the states had four separate votes against settling on Sunday, but the resistance eventually crumbled with word that the WGA was backing out of the fight.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 23, 2026

True, there have been moments in the nation’s martial past when social progress and military resistance sat in uneasy tension.

From Salon Sep. 20, 2026

It uses a harmless bacterium to insert DNA into the rootstock exactly where it is needed to give the tree resistance.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

"We wanted to understand whether resistance to death is inherited by the descendants of death-resistant cells that survived the initial irradiation," Arama says.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Finally, one protester stood up and informed Harris that “the Duke Vigil is not a draft resistance vigil. Our main object here is for the employees at Duke.”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

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

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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