susceptibility
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Obesity affects millions of people around the world and can significantly disrupt immune function, increasing susceptibility to both infections and cancer.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
They bred four strains of mice with different levels of susceptibility to liver cancer.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
The temperamental little, yellow fruit with its susceptibility to heavy rain and viruses can be tough to grow, while devastating hurricanes in Jamaica, a prime producer of Scotch bonnets, delivered a further blow.
From BBC ● May 31, 2026
Pandemics happen with regularity due to little things like the susceptibility of the human body to illness and international trade and travel.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
Here I must make a distinction between two types of susceptibility.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
"These patterns suggest that while similar risk factors across ages are likely, some cancers may have age-specific exposures, susceptibilities, or differences in screening and detection practices," write the researchers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
He is one of the 90% of people with so-called idiopathic disease: Their Parkinson’s has no clear genetic cause but almost certainly results from some combination of ill-defined genetic susceptibilities and environmental triggers.
From Science Magazine ● May 4, 2023
Social media, he says, exacerbate some dangerous susceptibilities — to demagoguery and moral vanity — that are neither new nor entirely expungable.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2021
Jeff Bardin, the chief intelligence officer at cybersecurity firm Treadstone 71, told Fox News that almost immediately after Soleimani's death, Iranian hackers began infiltrating U.S. city websites, searching for susceptibilities.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2020
Ask such a man about his business or family concerns; touch on affairs of politics or trade,—and you deal with a living mind, its powers and susceptibilities awake and alert.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
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