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
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  • Rull and other senior MIA administrators were raising objections at a time when there was a high-level push in county government to send money to the annual rodeo festival that County Commission Chair Anthony Rodriguez hosts each year in his district at Tropical Park.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • A number of reasons, including the high cost of the RSDSC and objections from environmentalists.
    Big Think, Big Think, 17 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 20 Oct. 2025.

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