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Challenging; Resisting; Standing up to

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Usage examples (35)
  • Literature can't be relevant to civic responsibility and reform agendas except in defying them.
  • The blindfolded participant represents the leading force in defying evil, ‘Fe’, faith, which must be blind.
  • He also seems to have found more support from his people, in defying Moscow, than he had ever gained in serving Moscow.
  • Canada, in defying the natural laws of economics, geography and politics is not a nation which will survive by herself.
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