DEFIANCES Synonyms: 17 Similar and Opposite Words

defiances

noun

plural of defiance

as in oppositions

the inclination to resist the troubled youth seems to have an ingrained defiance to authority of any sort

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There was a July 29 deadline for people to submit oppositions to the petitions to deny ABC’s license renewals, and there is an August 5 deadline for replies to the opposition filings.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 30 July 2026
In astrology, oppositions expose tension between two elemental forces, often through external circumstances or confrontations that make conflicted feelings impossible to ignore.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 20 July 2026

Definition of oppositions

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The letter by Raskin and colleagues raises numerous objections to the concept of morphing three affordable courses used by golfers of all levels into a more expensive course designed for professionals.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 3 Aug. 2026
By Elisabeth Zerofsky How the late-night host won comedy’s biggest prize — despite the White House’s objections.

— Daniel Bergner Elisabeth Zerofsky Benoit Denizet-Lewis David Marchese Charles Homans Kwame Anthony Appiah Sophie Haigney Chris Almeida Ismail Muhammad John Hodgman, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2026

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Thornton’s latest work has the potential to reach more audiences precisely because of the Huckleberry Finn-like spirit of its Kid and Max saga, giving more folks the opportunity to learn about colonialist histories and indigenous resistances in the lands down under.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 20 Feb. 2026
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025

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