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"defy imagination" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to something that is so impressive or extraordinary that it is hard to even imagine. For example: "The Grand Canyon's natural beauty defies imagination."
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This week, Honolulu will be overrun by gods and monsters, impossible visions and creatures that defy imagination.
Add to that number 15-25 million Congolese deaths during the rule of Belgian King Leopold, and the numbers defy imagination.
In places like Congo, the monstrosities committed against girls and women defy imagination - I've chronicled a few of the horrors in previous posts.
The traumas Guatemalan society endured during that time almost defy imagination.
It was, in the end, a fitting game in a wacky season, full of twists and turns that defy imagination and playoff prognosticators.
Some of the atrocities that survivors describe and mime defy imagination with their monstrosity — and the survivors' anguish is heightened by Habré's impunity, which came to an end in the course of the filming, with his 2013 arrest for crimes against humanity and his 2016 conviction and imprisonment.
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Several prices defied imagination.
Brown said: "This defies imagination.
Their ordeal and the strain on their families defies imagination.
The level of atrocities and the lack of humanity, the senseless killing defies imagination," she added.
"With the history this kid had, to guarantee their safety just defies imagination," Mr. Worby said.
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