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Noun
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Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.—
John Button,
STAT,
16 Dec. 2023 -
Andreas blames the obduracy of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats for the persistence of the drug wars, despite their evident failure and their huge financial and human costs.—
Russell Crandall,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Apr. 2021
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Reynolds lends a hardness to Masha, at once bitter and comic, and her leading of a game of bingo at the play’s resolution restores some dark humor just as tragedy is about to strike.—
Demetrios Matheou,
The Hollywood Reporter,
7 Mar. 2025
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Objects of varying size, shape and hardness were manipulated.—
Erico Guizzo,
IEEE Spectrum,
21 Oct. 2016
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The 17-year-old mother, named for a callosity near her blowhole that looks like a snow cone, no longer had the same girth or the dark black skin of a healthy right whale.—
David Abel,
BostonGlobe.com,
30 Sep. 2022
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The callosity patterns, like fingerprints, are unique to each whale, allowing researchers who have pored over whale catalogue photos to recognize plenty in the wild.—
Dino Grandoni,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Apr. 2022
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