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  1. Defying

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of defying in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of defying in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of defying in a Sentence

  1. George Chapman:

    The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  2. United Nations:

    Russia has given Assad everything he could dream of, without Russia's seven vetoes in the Security Council, defying the views of other members of Security Council, Assad would now have faced sanctions and justice.

  3. Falwell Jr.:

    It is a tremendous honor and privilege for any university to host a sitting US President, and we are incredibly grateful to have President Trump be a part of this historic day, this May, Liberty students will have the honor of hearing from a man who has succeeded in business and in politics, defying conventional wisdom to become the 45th President of the United States.

  4. Ohio Senate:

    [President] Joe Biden has basically launched a modern-style hunger games, which almost challenges these migrants who have no hope in their home country to make this death-defying journey.

  5. Kitty Block:

    This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....

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