Sentence examples for a defy from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a defy" is not correct and usable in written English.
It is incorrect because "defy" is a verb, and it should not be preceded by the article "a."
Example: "To defy the odds is a remarkable achievement."
Alternatives: "a challenge" or "an act of defiance."

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She was referring to Duncan Niederauer, a C.E.O. of the New York Stock Exchange and a Defy faculty member.

He is tall, large (in the anxious five months before the Los Angeles première, he put on thirty pounds), dark-haired, and bespectacled, with a bent for post-undergraduate denim wear and message buttons: on his black jeans jacket are a baby picture of Lenin inside a red star, a "Defy Section 28" badge, a Keith Haring man bashing a TV set, and a falling angel.

The 8 megapixel sensor does not imply a better resolved image than a 5 megapixel sensor, like the one on a Defy I had around.

I haven't handled a Defy, but I get a good feeling from it, unlike some of the other Motorola handsets I've seen recently.

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A: Theatre must defy order and authority.

Failures often are multifactorial and defy a simple explanation based on a single parameter.

We have impacted a diverse group of people and domains that defy a single categorization.

Microbes defy a simple notion of individuality.

Trump might defy a judge; he might defy the Supreme Court.

He can defy a 4lb higher mark.

We are in a position to defy those odds".

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