resistance
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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
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
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
It almost seemed as if these humans sensed the Afterlife realms—some unconscious part of them guiding them along the path of least resistance.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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
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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