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susceptibility

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


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The association remained even after researchers accounted for inherited genetic cancer risks and genetic susceptibility to accelerated aging.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Even so, these genetic differences appear to establish a distinct biological starting point that could affect a person's susceptibility to disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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

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

To confirm the diagnosis, samples of each patient’s TB had to be regrown in cultures and tested for drug susceptibility.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

"These patterns suggest that while similar risk factors across ages are likely, some cancers may have age-specific exposures, susceptibilities, or differences in screening and detection practices," write the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

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

And the writer, as if unwilling to wound the susceptibilities of his readers, has taken care to hurl contempt at the only character whose family was distinctly not respectable.

From The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham


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