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Example sentences for: defies

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The trouble was that while "heroic rebel defies orthodoxy" is a story so good that nobody even tries to check it out, "guy makes minor contribution to well-established field, proclaims himself its founder" is so boring as to be unpublishable.
It is so perfect, so absurd, that it's one of those increasingly common instances where real life defies parody.
History defies laws.
Nor are we likely to find a species that defies this pattern.
The LAT runs "Clinton Defies GOP, Names Lee Rights Chief."