susceptible

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Susceptible to a similar serendipity, my dad would let an article in a 40-year-old copy of Arizona Highways magazine lead him to a creased page of the Rand McNally road atlas.

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2022

Susceptible to an array of tropical storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods and droughts, Mexico had for years struggled to recover financially from its most crippling events.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2018

Susceptible roses eventually require sprays as the summer wears on, but the onslaught of the disease is significantly delayed.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2017

Susceptible to random, possibly erroneous but powerful memories out of his past, the professor, now living a comfortable American suburban life, begins to mistake his wife of many years for another woman, “Yen.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone than by unexpected words, and Arthur had the susceptibility of a nature at once affectionate and vain.

From Adam Bede by Eliot, George