insusceptible

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Recent Examples of insusceptible The band of sensation remained, insusceptible to feedback from my body. Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022 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 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
  • Even at his Conn Smythe Trophy-winning peak, Toews was not invulnerable.
    Murat Ates, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • But the havoc in Europe is a reminder that our thriving international network is not invulnerable.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Florida teachers are facing investigations for social media posts deemed insensitive after Charlie Kirk’s death — scrutiny that the state’s teachers union says targets even tangential or indirect comments.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The Trader Sam’s bar takes its name from the culturally insensitive Jungle Cruise headhunter character that was removed from the Disneyland river boat attraction in 2021.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • However, the White House later released a fact sheet stating the countries will invest more than $3 billion in critical mineral projects over the next six months.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Scientific American has served as an advocate for science and industry for 180 years, and right now may be the most critical moment in that two-century history.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 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
  • Initially mistrustful of each other, the two men bond over Molina's stories about movie star Ingrid Luna (Jennifer Lopez) and her starring role in the eponymous film-within-a-film.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Those who perceive this total control are prone to paranoia, leaving them mistrustful and lonely, while those who seek to profit from it are dragged into depravity.
    Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Throw away anything that looks suspicious.
    Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Journalists tend to be the type of people who run toward suspicious scenes.
    Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Talk of a solution—of two states, of a confederation, of nearly any prospect for a secure and free mode of coexistence—has long been dismissed as either an ingenuous assertion of faith or a cynical pantomime, an empty gesture toward a future no one expects to see.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025
  • As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.
    Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • His playing has now come to be an omen of danger, so visitors who hear drums playing should be wary.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The new real estate series sees the Scott twins help wary buyers grapple with commitment issues to possibly make the biggest purchase of their lives.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Insusceptible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insusceptible. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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