resistance

Ordinary people acquire one more linguistic choice through which to signal agreement, resistance or exhausted indifference.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026

What happened next changed the young United States, forcing people to question the line between law — which protected slavery — and justice, which demanded resistance to that law.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

A sustained break above the $81,500/$83,000 resistance area will be needed to signal that a move toward $95,000-$100,000 is underway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Each time, they have broken through another resistance level and continued higher, according to Fawad Razaqzada, market analyst for global macroeconomics at Forex.com.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

At that young age, George joined the Dutch underground resistance movement as a courier, learning to dodge the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

Though mosquito insecticides exist, the pests are developing resistances, and advancements are needed to reduce their numbers and slow the spread of pathogens they carry, including the malaria parasite and the Zika and dengue viruses.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

A lot of the voice was thinking about how the various ways in which, like, I think sometimes for me voice is about like, the resistances that we come up against.

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