Example Sentences

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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