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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The landowners' objections do not bar TVA's authorization to access the properties pursuant to the court’s orders, nor does authorization hinge on further activity in the lawsuits.—
Brie Stimson , Larry Fink,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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All states allow medical vaccine exemptions and most states already have exemption policies in place for people with strong religious objections, in an effort to balance the need for public health with the ideal of individual freedom of choice.—
Youri Benadjaoud,
ABC News,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Resistances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/resistances. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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