resistance
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Resistance has taken many forms, from the Whiskey Rebellion of the 1790s to Thoreau’s refusal to pay taxes on moral grounds to the 1,400 elected officials who have signed Grover Norquist’s antitax pledge.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Appeared in the March 19, 2026, print edition as 'Tulsi Gabbard’s Resistance Shop'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026
In the absence of powerful international allies, Tehran has spent decades building what it calls the "Axis of Resistance".
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026
According to findings published in the Nature journal npj Antimicrobials and Resistance, the researchers demonstrated that the system can travel through a natural mating channel formed between bacteria, distributing the resistance disabling elements across populations.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
She'd have been in her sixties when my parents controlled the Resistance.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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