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Example sentences for: resist

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All words are coinages, the editors claim, and they resist charting relations between their entries and an “authorized” or canonized list of words.
Actually, it was a quip pro quo--a retort Prudie could not resist.
Like a brick wall, they resist any frontal attack.
Chatterbox predicts Kerrey, who knows he shouldn't but who won't be able to resist...
Pundits can't resist noting the "scary prescience" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) of Barry Levinson's acclaimed satire about a fake war orchestrated to divert attention from a presidential sex scandal.