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
  • The landowners' objections do not bar TVA's authorization to access the properties pursuant to the court’s orders, nor does authorization hinge on further activity in the lawsuits.
    Brie Stimson , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • All states allow medical vaccine exemptions and most states already have exemption policies in place for people with strong religious objections, in an effort to balance the need for public health with the ideal of individual freedom of choice.
    Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 4 Sep. 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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