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Research suggests about a third of people, external are snacking every night after their evening meal - for those aged 18-24, four in five are unable to resist.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

In calling the race for Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district for Democratic Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, Maddow couldn’t resist calling her Republican opponent, Rob Bresnahan, a “sometime ghost hunter” as her colleagues snickered in the background.

From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2026

They are the secret, Rowan says, of being able to resist corporate decline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz unloads 80,000 shares for nearly $20 million as cybersecurity stocks resist a market downturn.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

I’m struck by how sad she looks, but I resist the temptation to comfort her.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

The father resists but the son is now curious.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

“It’s meant to be protected. Everything in me resists sharing it publicly — not because I’m not grateful or joyful, but because this feels like one of the few things that truly belongs to me.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Writing is thinking made visible: The sentence that resists you does so because the thought inside it is unfinished.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

The HV measurement refers to Vickers hardness, a test that evaluates how strongly a material resists being indented by a hard tip.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Bailey resists the urge to ask her when, and instead waits to see if she has anything else to add about the cards.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

Alito had openly contemplated retiring, while Thomas had stoutly resisted the idea.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

She said she would let his teams of investigators monitor encampment cleanups and operations aimed at moving homeless people indoors, something Bass resisted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Helen Norton, the state’s deputy solicitor general, resisted the suggestion that the state disfavors religion, especially in its preschool program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

After his trade to Toronto went through on Sept. 23, the Clippers resisted posting the “Thank You, Kawhi” graphic that pro sports teams do when they part ways with a player.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I asked inwardly, as with both hands I turned the stiff door-handle, which, for a second or two, resisted my efforts.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

"I am being punished for not only supporting my wife's work and activism, but for choosing this path of resisting injustice as our life journey together," Chatta said in his statement to Dawn News.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

There’s a gravitational pull that we’ve been resisting ever since we made the president a big role, and then placed one of our leads in the role of vice president.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

They also reported poorer sleep, a stronger desire for continuous stimulation, and greater difficulty resisting the urge to immediately check their phones or act on impulses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

The individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said there were "small pockets of the enemy forces still resisting and trying to create trouble".

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

While we flew to the party, she told me about weird things she’d read on the feed, while she was resisting it or whatev.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson