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Example sentences for: defies

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The equally whimsical nature of the “definitions’ defies description.
Second, disagree as one might with the highhanded approach taken by the Oakland Unified School District, the linguistic challenge confronting urban schools defies armchair comprehension.
It certainly defies the standard tropes of writing about young people--all that stuff about how it's OK to be yourself, even if you're different.
Over the decades, the agencies and the rules surrounding the intelligence community have accumulated to a depth that practically defies public comprehension.
An ethnic and territorial conflict that doesn't have much to do with globalization at all, the war in Kosovo defies Friedman's notion that international relations is now an extension of international economics.