susceptibility
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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
A lack of trust in government and health systems in the UK "underlaid susceptibility to false information", it added, and said action was needed to rebuild public trust in vaccines more generally.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
Researchers previously believed this condition developed mainly from a mix of genetic susceptibility and lifestyle or environmental influences.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Sad to say, there could hardly be a better time to bring back Mr. Letts’s stealthy, slow-burning 1996 play about the human susceptibility to paranoid delusions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
To confirm the diagnosis, samples of each patient’s TB had to be regrown in cultures and tested for drug susceptibility.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
Vocabulary lists containing susceptibility
This Week in Words: April 7- 13, 2018
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The Awakening
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