Brady and the Patriots again defied the odds and won a postsesason game with a critical drive in crunchtime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brady does it again as Patriots eliminate Chargers to reach AFC title game] Reference

David Broder going for Bush's jugular with words like "lawless" and "reckless" and "defied" is ... well ... staggering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is That Legal?: No More White House Passes For You, Buddy!] Reference

Upon this threshold of a wild scene of death they, in short, defied the proportion of events with that splendor of heedlessness which belongs only to veterans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Regiment] Reference

Upon this threshold of a wild scene of death they, in short, defied the proportion of events with that splendour of heedlessness which belongs only to veterans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Regiment] Reference

His expression clearly defied his father to argue with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Place Like Home] Reference

For a final touch, Crump assured me that these precious gentry were all but nameless; no one had ever heard the woman called anything, and the man's name defied pronunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference

His heavy glance drowsily roaming about kind of defied their further questions even should they by any chance want to. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Manhattan "defied" the trend and prices continued to climb.    From Wordnik.com.  [GenevaLunch] Reference

Wouldn't surprise me, she "defied" him on inauguration day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

"Both teams kind of defied the odds in getting back there, but now both have to try to do it again.".    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The teacher declared he would keep the whole class in all day and night if "defied" was not spelled correctly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller] Reference

His heavy glance drowsily roaming about kind of defied their further questions even should they by any chance want to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The word 'defied' had been given out by Schoolmaster Crawford, but had been misspelled several times when it came Miss Roby's turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine December, 1895] Reference

"defied" was given out and several pupils had misspelled it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Legislators who defied the will of the leadership were punished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everyone Vs. Congress] Reference

Schoolchildren defied dress codes by sporting the T shirts of their favorites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Play Ball!] Reference

Y. Shaposhnikov, 49, Defense MinisterAir Force commander who defied coup leaders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Comes The Witch Hunt] Reference

Michigan defied the national Democratic Party in moving its primary up to Jan. 15.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time to Floor It] Reference

During college Kim defied his family's wishes and flew to the United States to study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Korea's 'Generation 386'] Reference

Fifteen people had been killed and more curfews were called — and were being defied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trekking Nepal] Reference

Politkovskaya did — with a fierce obstinacy that often defied level-headed calculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slain But Not Silenced] Reference

Gehry, who's always defied categorization, bucked the postmodern trend throughout the '80s.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Maverick Master] Reference

To create his theater of the disturbed, Singh defied convention and looked to a world of color.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Cell'] Reference

If we had resisted, I suspect our daughter would simply have defied her mother and eloped to Korea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Loving Our Neighbors] Reference

Third, the strength of the United States as a magnet for foreign investment has defied expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Debt Hasn’t Killed Us Yet] Reference

In a World Cup that has defied prediction, everything in this final now seems to be point Brazil's way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clash Of The Titans] Reference

Hadn't the Butcher of Baghdad already gassed entire Iraqi villages in the 1980s when they had defied his rule?.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Topple a Tyrant] Reference

In recent years France and Germany have defied EU orders to open up state-protected energy and cable networks.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT COULD THEY BE THINKING?] Reference

Until now, China had defied the traditional theories of how fast developing nations could grow, and for how long.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Large To Grow So Fast] Reference

The message to thugs elsewhere was unambiguous, if unintentional: America can be defied, even in its own backyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics Of Promiscuity] Reference

Talbott argued that Clinton should be flexible, that the situation in Russia defied conventional notions of democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton's Growing Pains] Reference

Three factors help explain how the rot has defied Fox's most determined efforts to eradicate it: The PRI's enduring influence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rotten To The Core] Reference