Synonyms for defying
de·fy·ing

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1. List of paraphrases for "defying":

   challenging, defiant, defy, braving

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1. Neil Saunders:

   After a year of defying gravity, the slowing economy and pressures on consumers have finally caught up with Home Depot, for most of 2022, the number of existing homes sold has been in decline. However, the pace of decline accelerated in December with the volume of completed sales down by a sharp 36.3%.

2. George Chapman:

   The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

   In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

4. Steve Vladeck:

   One of two things is true: Either this kind of blind, rigid, context-free, and common-sense-defying assessment of history is exactly what the Supreme Court intended in its landmark ruling last June in Bruen, or it isn’t.

5. Kitty Block:

   This week, while one part of the Japanese government is proudly facilitating international cooperation by hosting the G20 meeting, another is quietly extricating itself from the obligation for global collaboration on the protection and management of the world's whales, japan leaving the IWC and defying international law to pursue its commercial whaling ambitions is renegade, retrograde and myopic....