resistance
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Unlike the current flowing through ordinary electrical conductors, a supercurrent moves without resistance.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026
"A lot of the resistance has come from athletes, because you don't know," she added.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 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
Buckingham Palace said it was a moment for the King to learn more about the history of slavery and resistance.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
When the Japanese prohibit Filipinos from gathering in groups, churches organize resistance meetings inside chapels under the guise of worship.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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
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