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I am more susceptible to colds than most.susceptible = easily influenced or harmed
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She is susceptible to the pleas of anyone appearing to be in need.susceptible = easily influenced by
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She is not susceptible to emotional arguments that are not supported statistically.
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This disease, Valley Fever, makes the body tired and susceptible to other infections. (source)susceptible = easily harmed when exposed
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Dodgson had finally located a susceptible InGen employee earlier in the year. (source)susceptible = easily influenced
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I haven't had a seizure in seven years, but the doctors tell me that I am "susceptible to seizure activity." (source)susceptible = easily influenced or harmed by
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"Five, four, three, two, one," he said. "Wake up, Mary. ... Some's much more susceptible than others. She's a piece of cake." (source)susceptible = easily influenced
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And then, even as the might of the individual seemed to have been curbed, the Principle of Might had sprung up behind him in another shape—in the shape of collective might, of banded ferocity, of numerous armies insusceptible to individual laws.† (source)insusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed OR not capable of being treated in a particular waystandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in insusceptible means not and reverses the meaning of susceptible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire; how little it is biased by the texture of their muslin, and how unsusceptible of peculiar tenderness towards the spotted, the sprigged, the mull, or the jackonet.† (source)unsusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed; or not capable of being treated in a particular waystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsusceptible means not and reverses the meaning of susceptible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. (source)susceptible = easily influenced
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But here and there occurs a scrap of intensely insusceptible, intensely resistant material; and that stubborn scrap grapples with the current and will not let it through until it has made itself useful to you as those two vital qualities of literature, light and heat.† (source)insusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed OR not capable of being treated in a particular way
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Possibly, he postulated, it was "the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character unsusceptible of civilization."† (source)unsusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed; or not capable of being treated in a particular way
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"He is susceptible, our Colonel," thought Hercule Poirot to himself with some amusement. (source)susceptible = easily influenced
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It fell upon his ear with many tones of tenderness, that were not insusceptible of the new meaning.† (source)insusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed OR not capable of being treated in a particular way
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A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked. (source)susceptible = easily influenced
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Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.† (source)insusceptible = not easily influenced or harmed OR not capable of being treated in a particular way
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