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Example sentences for: defies

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Zhuang, a Tai language spoken in Southern China, defies typographers by employing letters resembling the numbers 2 through 6 to indicate syllabic tone: \symbol\.
The equally whimsical nature of the “definitions’ defies description.
Over the decades, the agencies and the rules surrounding the intelligence community have accumulated to a depth that practically defies public comprehension.
Also, a shaggy-dog plot that defies the laws of time and space.
This is stuff that defies analysis.