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• The mess in Bart's room defies description !
• His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury .
• In 1970 he defied the three-line whip against EC membership .
• They defied convention by giving up their jobs and becoming self-sufficient .
• Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals .

Among historians and sociologists of science, it is a commonplace that scientists' accusations of plagiarism defy straightforward explanations. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus It is a social concept that defies rigid definition, yet is helpful as both a normative, aspirational guide and a term for describing our behaviour. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus Contemporary social scientists struggle with the problem of being precise about that which defies precision : the cloudiness of our own lives. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus For all of the musicians surveyed here, folk music constitutes a fluid tradition which defies categorisation and adapts to very different circumstances. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus His book effortlessly and purposefully defies the false dichotomy between a cultural studies approach and a historical one. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus Counteracting the conduct-book-like prescriptions of their words, the performative force of the female voice undoes the drama and defies its constraining messages. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus Those who support a democratic regime do not have to defy traditional authority relations within the family or in the workplace. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus Since the resultant optic flow fields defy easy analysis, the two components must be separated before the information in each field can be extracted. 來自 Cambridge English Corpus