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How to use the word defied in a Sentence?

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They were a group that defied easy categorization, and they tended to challenge – and in some cases, upend – the easy definition of American society into the categories of Black and White.

Eric Goldstein

Found on CNN
11 months ago

We defied the experts, we bucked the elites, we ignored the chatter, we did it our way, the Florida way.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Those documents should not have been in the personal possession of either Joe Biden or Donald Trump, but what happened and followed from it is significantly different, donald Trump defied those who knew the documents were in place and ultimately led to, involuntarily, a court order and a search of his Mar-a-Lago hotel resort to find out how many documents were there.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

House Democrats defied history on a record of creating jobs, keeping families safe, investing in America, defending women’s freedom and the integrity of our democracy, voters rejected MAGA extremism and now House Republicans are in a state of disarray. With a razor-thin majority, Kevin McCarthy is being forced to kneel to extremism in a GOP conference that wants to ban abortion, challenge elections, hawk conspiracy theories that make us all less safe and sow even more hate and division in America.

Chris Taylor

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think that Boris Johnson, clearly at Boris Johnson height, was a very popular figure with the British people as we saw with the 2019 general election, boris Johnson defied all odds to win a historic victory by a huge majority.

Nile Gardiner

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Consumer spending has long defied the fluctuations in consumer sentiment, what we're likely to see this time isn't that consumers cut back on spending, it's just that they spend differently. This is an environment where necessities are chewing up more and more of a household's spendable dollars.

Greg McBride

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While China is facing huge economic headwinds, the country has defied bearish predictions in the past, in other words, Western banks are playing the long game under the guise of portfolio diversification.

United States

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A stronger expansion of business activity in November defied economists' expectations of a slowdown, but is unlikely to prevent the euro zone from suffering slower growth in the fourth quarter, especially as rising virus cases look set to cause renewed disruptions to the economy in December.

Chris Williamson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fox Sports's defied every trend inside media for a decade, why wouldn't Fox Sports continue to ?

Patrick Crakes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once again, liberal judges have defied the will of North Carolinians on election integrity. Voters of this state have repeatedly supported a voter ID requirement -- going so far as to enshrine it in our state constitution. Senate Bill 824 is one of the most generous in the country, and it was modeled on those of other states. At trial, Plaintiffs could not produce a single witness who would be unable to vote because of the law, we look forward to appealing this partisan ruling on behalf of the people of North Carolina.

Sam Hayes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As much as anyone, Daquan Patten epitomized the unheralded, self-made player who defied enormous odds to not only earn a job in the NFL but to become a key player on multiple championship teams, i can speak for anyone who had the pleasure to be around Daquan Patten that Daquan Patten work ethic, positive energy and character were elite. My deepest condolences are with his family and loved ones.

Bill Belichick

Found on CNN
2 years ago

In 2008, it made sense. At the end of last year, the short-term funding market defied any rational explanation.

Jeremy Kress

Found on CNN
3 years ago

In my case, it was elected to the Amy Klobuchar Senate ; no woman had ever done it before, but I came back. I defied expectations and I won. ... And tonight in New Hampshire, as everyone had counted us out, even a week ago -- thank you, pundits -- I came back, and we delivered.

Amy Klobuchar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

These witnesses have defied the White House efforts to prevent their testimony by following the lawful requirements of subpoenas, the President has urged The President acolytes in Congress to use other means to try to prevent their testimony, but they won't be successful.

Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
4 years ago

In the midst of such profound anguish, one memory fills us with hope, when evil showed its hideous face, Americans of all walks of life rose up -- and they did, they rose up -- they defied fear, they stared down death to protect the innocent. And stand tall they did just for righteous and for good.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When people look at the Supreme Court, they try to put people in factions-- liberals or conservatives, justiceStevens, from his first day on the Supreme Court, has defied labels. He approached cases on his own terms and he frequently comes up with original ways of approaching cases and the issues that have carried the day.

Clifford Sloan

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values.

Stacey Abrams

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Household consumption is what has driven the structural growth story in China, it has defied a lot of the slowdown.

Edmund Goh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Women and girls in Dominican Republic have always defied the abortion ban, but they have been forced to put their health and lives on the line to end pregnancies clandestinely.

Margaret Wurth

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I’ve defied what doctors thought my life would be - someone who would be wheelchair bound and unable to walk.

Bart Gee

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

That’s likely because voters want Charlie Baker to check on the Democratic-controlled legislature, but they’re turned off by Republicans in federal races, especially over social issues. He thinks Senator Warren and her deep-pocketed campaign will be tough to beat but that Dielh or Lindstrom are capable, with Diehl perhaps having the early advantage as a result of better name recognition. Senator Warren has $ 11 million in her campaign account through the end of June, compared with $ 260,000 for Geoff Diehl and $ 28,000 for Shiva Ayyadurai, another GOP candidate and a technology entrepreneur, according to Federal Election Commission records. Though presidents typically stay out of their party’s primaries, Bob Gray pointed out that Donald Trump has already defied that convention and mused that Donald Trump could be a factor in Massachusetts.

Bob Gray

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The gun industry has openly defied our laws here in Massachusetts for nearly two decades, that ends today. We have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure that combat-style weapons are off our streets and out of the hands of those who would use them to kill innocent people, she said. Increasingly, these guns are the weapon of choice for mass shooters, and we will do everything we can to prevent the kinds of tragedies here that have occurred in places like Orlando, San Bernardino, Newtown and Aurora.

State Attorney General Maura Healey

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You defied the cynics, you accomplished big things, racked up a great record. And you don't get enough credit, i can't imagine how that feels.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Despite the slowdown in the economy, China's richest have defied gravity, recording their best year ever, and creating more wealth than any country has ever done before in a year.

Hurun Report chairman Rupert Hoogewerf

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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