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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 .

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. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus By the same token, politicians who choose restrictive fiscal and monetary policies over more expansionary alternatives are not necessarily defying the laws of political gravity. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus His "heroes" will continually offer resistance to authorial reification, they will invariably defy their author's assumed transgradience. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus This is an emotional truth which often seems to defy the interpretations of archaeologists, historians or anthropologists. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus Plus most women on death row, like their male counterparts, have complex, dysfunctional lives, and so defy easy categorisation. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus Jacobean policymaking was a fluid process that defies simple characterization while operative norms changed during the reign. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus His book effortlessly and purposefully defies the false dichotomy between a cultural studies approach and a historical one. 来自 Cambridge English Corpus