defiances

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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Noun
  • Rossellini’s film is part of a distinctive canon of modernist melodramas that self-consciously acknowledge the tension of those oppositions and foreground their symbolic disruption of realistic conventions.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This puts a spotlight on your career, but oppositions to Saturn and Neptune in your 10th house force you to balance work demands with family obligations and responsibilities.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Reviewing pages have been thinned by the forces of history and technology; few Pynchon skeptics anymore bother to take the time to read the novels and register their objections.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As the administration takes aim at vessels in the Caribbean, senators and lawmakers of both major political parties have raised stark objections.
    Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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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“Defiances.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/defiances. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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