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However, it is understood that the club expects Sullivan to defy the request not to attend home matches and has told London Stadium this.

From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026

Since Kiki’s abilities allow her to defy gravity, she runs packages across town, avoiding auto traffic and pedestrian crowds.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

But just as humans do, old pipes can defy the odds and perform better than younger ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Discount brokers don’t like to talk about how many customers defy the odds, but Peterffy’s firm provided an intriguing clue via an advertisement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

I did not dare defy King’s Landing so long as my last living son remained a captive.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

So singular that it all but defies any kind of tea-leaf-reading or, heaven forbid, attempts at replication.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Because it was his favorite kind of question: one that is simple to state yet defies a simple answer.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

There is always at least one team that defies the odds and emerges as the surprise package of a World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The gender split also defies the stereotypical image of the young male gamer.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

The next head-spinning result arrived when Anthropic’s Fable model found a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, a famously treacherous problem that had defied mathematicians for 87 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

When the homicide rate was rising, it defied criminologists’ expectations, breaking away from the property crime decline of the 2010s.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

By chance, a BBC Wales camera crew had defied instructions to cease filming,, external and so the moment was preserved for all time as Sobers launched six successive deliveries over the ropes.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Like he cannot believe this wonderful thing that has just happened even if he was the one who sweat and ran and defied physics to make it happen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

“You defied me in public, so I had no choice but to publicly put you in your place. In the future, you need to hold your opinions until we are alone.”

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

O’Hearn accused the government of defying her orders when, instead of releasing the man, Immigration and Customs Enforcement transferred him to a different facility in New York.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

Big companies are starting to hire again, defying predictions of an AI wipeout.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Thousands of protesters started gathering from early Monday, defying a steady monsoon drizzle and police barricades put up on routes leading to the site.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

But the seventh-seeded Serb has a way of defying Father Time and he has had two days to recover on a surface where points are shorter and generally less taxing on the body.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

He looks at the world with a strange, sullen, fixed-from- under stare, as though defying all efforts of compassion.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright