susceptible
Example Sentences
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Thinly traded markets have fewer inputs to determine the percentage odds, and those odds are more susceptible to outsize swings.
From Barron's
She said: "Children are highly susceptible to aggressive marketing of unhealthy foods and exposure to them puts them at greater risk of developing obesity and associated chronic diseases."
From BBC
For another, their armor protected their hulls against attack — the design rationale being that they would chiefly engage enemy vessels in battleship-to-battleship engagements — but their decks were susceptible to assault from the skies.
From Los Angeles Times
She is intrigued by whether the brain is more susceptible to certain mental-health or neurological issues because of this rewiring, since there is a pattern between the five stages and common conditions.
That people are so susceptible to what they read, watch and listen to online is perturbing enough as it is.
From Salon
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