resistive

Example Sentences

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"You clearly see near surface is saline water, 10 meters underneath is resistive freshwater. You see clearly it's everywhere."

From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026

“Deputy Kirk used a level of force that deputies across this country are trained and authorized to use when taking a resistive suspect into custody,” Wilson said.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

The team’s array of seafloor electrodes, sensitive to the conductivity of water, captured a subducting seamount that appeared to have a conductive interior covered by a thin resistive crust.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023

"If we start building communities and structures out of materials more resistive to fire, we are upping our odds of success — we've got to do something different and do it better."

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2022

Probably it helps to predispose nerve tissues to degeneration by lowering their resistive vitality to the direct pathogenic action of the virus of syphilis.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)