resistance
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Iran has expressed openness to discussing its nuclear program, easing its earlier resistance, the people added.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
The $80 level has price memory acting as resistance.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
“Celebrating a community is another form of resistance and power in these times,” Feldman said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
After losing power, royalists also used it to signal resistance.
From Science Daily • May 7, 2026
Faced with ongoing Indigenous resistance and continuous pressure from settlers, Washington’s administration negotiated the first of many treaties it would make with Indigenous nations.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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