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resistant

adjective as in antagonistic

adjective as in impervious

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adjective as in opposing

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One other worry is that influenza could evolve to be resistant to zanamivir, though that doesn’t appear to have been an issue yet.

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"However, a much more severe disease arrives, one that improved varieties are normally more resistant to... and the local varieties perish, or perhaps don't produce fruit," he told AFP.

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Republican senators had been resistant to the so-called “nuclear option” before the elections, and after the party’s shocking losses they came back with a hard no.

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Cummings and countless others to a resistant cultural establishment.

Approximately 15% of these cases respond well to immunotherapy, while the majority remain resistant to this treatment approach.

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