'defies' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to resist or challenge authority, convention, or a natural law. You can use it when you want to express that something or someone is being resistant to a command, expectation, or rule. For example: The young snowboarder defied the law and took to the slopes, despite the fact that they were closed.
And unless Labour is able to embrace a politics of aspiration and inclusion, a politics that defies some of the traditional labels that have dogged politics for so long, then it's not going to win".
"I recently saw research into the bone density in Cirque du Soleil performers and it completely defies the medical expectation of decline starting in the 30s," he says.
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Jerome Jarre went to a French school which also defies easy categorisation.
It is capable of a sort of fabrication that is peculiar to the medium, of highly individualistic, highly crafted work that, like anything of merit, defies classification – although the very structure of the BBC's commissioning processes militate against the non-generic.
"We simply can't believe that they are still behind bars; that it's been 319 days just defies belief," Anstey said.
"The scale of viciousness of the abuses being perpetrated by elements on both sides almost defies belief," she said.
"This defies our sense of logic and common sense.
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However Northern Ireland, with its competing sectarian bloc system, defies normal political gravity.
None the less, the mere fact that he is still first minister after the deluge of scandal heaped upon him since the start of the year is remarkable and evidence of how the necessity of keeping political compromise moving forward defies normal political gravity.
