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As our immune response to them wanes, we once again become susceptible to them.

Also notable, they recommend requiring that a home seller, for instance, disclose whether the property was susceptible to coastal flooding during a real estate transaction.

One effect is that the pool of susceptible individuals has been depleted in many areas.

In these children, who showed no outward symptoms of compromised immunity, he has found defects in genes that make them susceptible to severe infection with a single pathogen.

At first the virus infects people who are more susceptible and spreads quickly.

Once people with ID are arrested, they are particularly susceptible to making coerced and often false confessions.

These studies only speak to one of our ingrained mental habits that make us particularly susceptible to religious belief.

Of these, 2.5 million are under the age of five and most susceptible to childhood diseases.

Once RB was turned off, female cells were equally susceptible to becoming cancerous.

Catholics, Jews, Italians, and Greeks were thought to be particularly susceptible.

Nearly every acre I have seen is susceptible of cultivation, and of course either cultivated, built upon, or devoted to wood.

They are more susceptible to the horrors and discomforts of what they were never brought up to undergo.

It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.

And another has on show fine papers as susceptible of receiving good impressions from type as any in use in modern books.

The soft material lying between these is very susceptible to damp, especially when fresh cut.

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On this page you'll find 93 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to susceptible, such as: affected, easy, impressionable, inclined, liable, and prone.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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