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susceptibility

[suh-sep-tuh-bil-i-tee] / səˌsɛp təˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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The findings suggest that an already damaged valve may be especially vulnerable when serotonin exposure, reduced transporter activity, and genetic susceptibility occur together.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

The temperamental little, yellow fruit with its susceptibility to heavy rain and viruses can be tough to grow, while devastating hurricanes in Jamaica, a prime producer of Scotch bonnets, delivered a further blow.

From BBC May 31, 2026

"These age-related changes, known as immunosenescence, lead to a decline in immune resilience and an increased susceptibility to age-related chronic inflammatory diseases," Kirkwood explains.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

Pandemics happen with regularity due to little things like the susceptibility of the human body to illness and international trade and travel.

From Salon May 11, 2026

Here I must make a distinction between two types of susceptibility.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

He is one of the 90% of people with so-called idiopathic disease: Their Parkinson’s has no clear genetic cause but almost certainly results from some combination of ill-defined genetic susceptibilities and environmental triggers.

From Science Magazine May 4, 2023

Social media, he says, exacerbate some dangerous susceptibilities — to demagoguery and moral vanity — that are neither new nor entirely expungable.

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2021

Jeff Bardin, the chief intelligence officer at cybersecurity firm Treadstone 71, told Fox News that almost immediately after Soleimani's death, Iranian hackers began infiltrating U.S. city websites, searching for susceptibilities.

From Fox News Jan. 3, 2020

Without the plant host susceptibilities, the pathogen would starve before the plant got sick.

From Salon Jul. 29, 2018

If she possess unaffected modesty and a keen sense of honor and virtue, who is to recognise and appreciate those amiable qualities in a society which is preposterously estranged from all natural susceptibilities?

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Shib Chunder Bose




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