1
as in oppositions
the inclination to resist
after some initial resistance, the city council warmed up to the proposed development plan
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2
as in undergrounds
a secret organization in a conquered country fighting against enemy forces
soldiers from the resistance were captured after a skirmish outside the foreign ministry
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Recent Examples of resistances
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).
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IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
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Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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This puts a spotlight on your career, but oppositions to Saturn and Neptune in your 10th house force you to balance work demands with family obligations and responsibilities.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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What To Know The health system said that several competing health systems filed objections to Wellstar’s application related to this project.—
Lauren Giella,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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Even so, many artists choose to make such objections public so that a general audience is aware of their stance.—
Anastasia Tsioulcas,
NPR,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Resistances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resistances. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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