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resistant

[ri-zis-tuhnt] / rɪˈzɪs tənt /


ADJECTIVE
impervious
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Such treatments could potentially help prevent resistance from emerging or make resistant cancers responsive to therapy again.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 23, 2026

Other AI leaders have been somewhat resistant to that idea of broadly pacing work on AI.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

I was extremely resistant and worried it would seem like disability porn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Growers have ordered hundreds of thousands of resistant trees for planting in the spring, with about a million in production.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

She looks at ALBUS, his eyes stay resistant.

From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling




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