resistance
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Ordinarily, cooling a metal causes its electrical resistance to fall steadily, allowing current to flow more easily.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
The rise of synthetic stock tokens has drawn resistance from corporate executives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
That might have been part of my personal resistance, that my relationship with the material was based on the people who wrote it, and I’m not big on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even resistance to consumerism could be packaged as a new consumer ideal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Fischer, in his underwear, sat in his hotel room, the door bolted and telephone unplugged, a picture in stony resistance.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
The most powerful ones have to be used as rarely as possible, to give bacteria fewer opportunities to develop resistances.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024
Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
In the 1940's and '50's, when humans first began taking antibiotics, the resistances were already in the environment and worked their way into the bacteria that cause human infection.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
And the ways in which we have learned to speak at or around those resistances.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023
That something seemed to have rules and resistances of its own, ones that did not stem from me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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