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resistance
noun as in fighting, opposition
Strongest matches
battle, defiance, fight, intransigence, protection, refusal, struggle, support
Strong matches
blocking, check, combat, contention, counteraction, cover, detention, friction, hindrance, holding, impedance, impediment, obstruction, rebuff, retardation, safeguard, screen, shield, stand, watch
Weak matches
halting, impeding, parrying, protecting, striking back, warding off, withstanding
Example Sentences
The trader sees support for CPO futures at 4,100 ringgit a ton and resistance at 4,280 ringgit a ton.
That’s the path of least resistance — and expenses like these are the reason to have liquid savings that you can access in an emergency.
So SPX seems to be in a trading range between support and resistance.
The resistance rages that he failed to hold the line against defections.
It is difficult to predict the pace and tempo of the slide towards authoritarianism, and even harder to predict the “if and when” of resistance and reversal of that slide.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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