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Example sentences for: defiance

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According to an Australian biologist, certain "rebel" worker bees have found ways of breeding in defiance of the convention that only queen bees are allowed to reproduce.
Emphatic negative retort expressing condemnation, defiance, hostility, opposition, refusal, rejection: As civilians we'll have to get used to using “No thanks!”
Consequently and disastrously, the Jones team's expressions of shock played into the Clinton team's spin: that the surprise in Wright's decision lay in her defiance not of the facts of the case, but of the politics.
The Los Angeles Times reported that many observers had expected the IRA to commit such an attack as a final gesture of defiance before slinking back to a cease-fire.
Jane and Mary's dependence and deference as they maneuver for Owens' attention (and money), Owens' domineering response to his "family," Olivia's defiance of Owens at the end--all are presumably meant to suggest, with due irony, that in America, plus ça