insusceptible

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Recent Examples of insusceptible Published in Science Advances, this paper states that Portulaca oleracea, a common plant also called purslane, could influence the creation of drought-resistant crops, completely insusceptible to climate change. Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2022 The band of sensation remained, insusceptible to feedback from my body. Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022 But not all judges are in Trump’s pocket, and judges in general are relatively insusceptible to direct political suasion. Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020 Many are also insusceptible to later pesticides like dieldrin, malathion and deltamethrin. Charles C. Mann, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insusceptible
Adjective
  • Short of a ground attack with US troops included, these parts of Iran’s nuclear network are to some degree invulnerable.
    Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • While no lock is completely invulnerable, the X1 forces a thief to spend more time and make more noise, both major deterrents in real-world scenarios.
    Josh Patterson, Outside Online, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • This insensitive demand is also strengthened by the impracticality of alternatives.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 20 June 2025
  • Another 580 million have type 2 diabetes, which arises when the hormone insulin, which controls blood sugar levels, is in short supply or the body’s cells become insensitive to it.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • The lasting impact of the 1953 coup While the U.S. and Iran have butt heads over a range of issues since the 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, including years of strife over Iran’s nuclear program, the 1953 coup remains a critical event still invoked in modern Iran.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 24 June 2025
  • The honorees will receive grants of up to $110,000 annually for up to five years to conduct research on critical topics in neuroscience, cancer, immunology and pain.
    Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Adjective
  • By comparison, only two of 128 unexposed controls — 1.6% — showed such issues.
    Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • How would an undergrad completely unexposed to business and compensation practices critically digest this information?
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, security teams must expand visibility with tools that monitor AI use, flag suspicious behavior and inventory every AI-enabled app.
    Jason Vest, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Why else, the night Mrs. Palit invited us to dinner, did my eyes fall on suspicious dark objects, not much larger than prominent flecks of salt, in the dal?
    Jhumpa Lahiri, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Mamdani proposes to pay for these splendid gifts to the city’s voters by raising taxes even further on the city’s top income earners, in the cynical belief that those who make up his tax base are stuck there, cannot flee, and are thus cows to be helplessly milked.
    The Editors, National Review, 25 June 2025
  • Too often, leaders are stuck between moral maximalism and cynical cost-cutting.
    HEC Paris Insights, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Adjective
  • But for investors who are wary of the susceptibility of Argos’s sales to the unpredictable nature of the weather, the team is ramping up its efforts to expand its products to include stockless ranges.
    John Choong, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • Be wary of mailbox communications: Bad actors may also try to scam you through snail mail.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • The Geneva–Lausanne region offers a unique blend of access to alpine adventure, lakeside leisure and cosmopolitan living.
    Lysanne Currie, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
  • But Howard notes even this was part of turning sections of a city into public, cosmopolitan spaces that incorporated both people of different social status and ideas from around the world.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 24 May 2025

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“Insusceptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insusceptible. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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