resistance

The Azov fighters captured at Mariupol have iconic status in Ukraine, with their weeks-long hold-out in the sprawling steelworks contributing to a nationwide narrative of resistance.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

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

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

The tiny amount of remaining gas produces resistance as spacecraft move through it.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

Now as I began to grasp the solitaire game, I wondered what Father’s resistance to them had been—surely nothing could be more innocent than this succession of shapes called clubs, spades, diamonds.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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