refractory
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Late-phase data for the U.K. drugmaker’s camlipixant and bepirovirsen in refractory chronic cough and hepatitis B, respectively, are due and the outcome of a portfolio review should come alongside second-quarter results, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026
The Food and Drug Administration has accepted a biologics license application for anito-cel as a fourth-line treatment for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
This refractory metal-based material, in whose discovery Dr. Alexander Kauffmann, now professor at the Ruhr University Bochum, played a major role, exhibits properties never seen before.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
He said the medical cause of Benn's death was "refractory cardiogenic shock due to taxane alkaloid poisoning, following ingestion of yew tree berries and leaves".
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023
Then in the Clarkston area of Washington the insects became refractory — they were harder to kill than in the orchards of the Wenatchee and Yakima valleys and elsewhere.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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U.S. and European companies have been recently investing in developing synthetic graphite as demand from the EV sector is surging for this soft form of carbon, which until recently was mainly used for steelmaking refractories.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2023
It boasted that it was the world's No. 1 producer of aluminum, tinplate, refractories, plumbing fixtures, lifting jacks, air brakes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Relatively small but increasingly important quantities are used in making bauxite brick or high alumina refractories for furnace-linings.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
The Vice-palatine's task was to teach these refractories, through patriotic reasoning, to amend their ways.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
Even Moses had to kill the envious refractories, while Savonarola, the unarmed prophet, was destroyed.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
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