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He is one of the 90% of people with so-called idiopathic disease: Their Parkinson’s has no clear genetic cause but almost certainly results from some combination of ill-defined genetic susceptibilities and environmental triggers.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2023

Social media, he says, exacerbate some dangerous susceptibilities — to demagoguery and moral vanity — that are neither new nor entirely expungable.

From Washington Post • Dec. 31, 2021

Jeff Bardin, the chief intelligence officer at cybersecurity firm Treadstone 71, told Fox News that almost immediately after Soleimani's death, Iranian hackers began infiltrating U.S. city websites, searching for susceptibilities.

From Fox News • Jan. 3, 2020

Without the plant host susceptibilities, the pathogen would starve before the plant got sick.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2018

Her mind being filled with germinal susceptibilities, she imbibes almost instinctively an increasing predilection for the performance of religious ceremonies.

From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder