resistant
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Exchanges were member-owned, resistant to change, and mostly avoided.
From Barron's • Jul. 1, 2026
Americans have been resistant to changing their protein-consuming proclivities in the face of higher prices, but that’s slowly changing, said Earnest.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 30, 2026
Allies of the former mayor of Greater Manchester say Burnham's time in that job proved to him "how resistant Whitehall can be to devolution", as one put it, and that he wanted that to change.
From BBC • Jun. 28, 2026
The researchers examined how resistant each strain was to 16 commonly used antibiotics, including ampicillin combined with sulbactam, meropenem, tetracycline, and vancomycin.
From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026
A culture showed that the bacilli from his body were resistant to all four of the drugs he’d been given, and to one other first-line antibiotic as well.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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