defy
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Appeared in the October 8, 2025, print edition as 'Republican Hopes to Defy the Odds'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 7, 2025
Defy Ventures does seven-month training programs inside prisons to create “entrepreneurs in training,” Huynh said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023
One such network, Defy Media, abruptly shut down in 2018, leaving the creators in its network scrambling to find new homes.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2022
Then again, the futuristic Taco Bell Defy and its ilk—as well as these companies’ earnings reports—show us where Americans are going, or more precisely, how.
From Slate • Sep. 9, 2022
Now the darkness dares to dim The light celestial, while the sons of night Defy the day itself.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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